[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Always pin contexts into the high GGTT

[Chris Wilson]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 03:39:31PM +0200, Joonas Lahtinen wrote:
> On pe, 2017-02-10 at 10:14 +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > Now that we have fast top-down insertion into the drm_mm, we can use it
> > for frequent runtime operations like insertion of the context object,
> > whereas before we limited it to the one-off insertion of the pinned
> > kernel context. Keeping the active context objects out of the mappable
> > region of the global GTT (except under memory pressure) improves our
> > ability to allocate mappable aperture region without triggering a GPU
> > stall.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> > Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com>

Thanks for the review, both of you. Pushed,
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre