[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Wait for struct_mutex inside shrinker

Joonas Lahtinen joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com
Mon May 29 11:55:19 UTC 2017


On ke, 2017-05-24 at 11:11 +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Having resolved whether or not we would deadlock upon a call to
> mutex_lock(&dev->struct_mutex), we can then wait for the contended
> struct_mutex if we are not the owner. This should significantly improve
> the chance of running the shrinker for other processes whilst the GPU is
> busy.
> 
> 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>

Regards, Joonas
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Joonas Lahtinen
Open Source Technology Center
Intel Corporation


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