[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 04/10] drm/i915: Shrink the request kmem_cache on allocation error

[Tvrtko Ursulin]

On 15/01/2018 21:24, Chris Wilson wrote:
> If we fail to allocate a new request, make sure we recover the pages
> that are in the process of being freed by inserting an RCU barrier.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> ---
>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.c | 3 +++
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.c
> index 72bdc203716f..e6d4857b1f78 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.c
> @@ -696,6 +696,9 @@ i915_gem_request_alloc(struct intel_engine_cs *engine,
>   		if (ret)
>   			goto err_unreserve;
>   
> +		kmem_cache_shrink(dev_priv->requests);

Hm, the one in idle work handler is not enough? Or from another angle, 
the kmem_cache_alloc below won't work hard enough to allocate something 
regardless?

> +		rcu_barrier();

This one is because req cache is RCU? But doesn't that mean freed 
requests are immediately available as per:

static void i915_fence_release(struct dma_fence *fence)
{
	struct drm_i915_gem_request *req = to_request(fence);

	/* The request is put onto a RCU freelist (i.e. the address
	 * is immediately reused), mark the fences as being freed now.
	 * Otherwise the debugobjects for the fences are only marked as
	 * freed when the slab cache itself is freed, and so we would get
	 * caught trying to reuse dead objects.
	 */

Regards,

Tvrtko

> +
>   		req = kmem_cache_alloc(dev_priv->requests, GFP_KERNEL);
>   		if (!req) {
>   			ret = -ENOMEM;
>