[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Break long iterations for get/put shmemfs pages

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Mon Nov 5 17:06:40 UTC 2018


As we may have to iterate a few thousand elements to acquire and release
the shmemfs backing storage for a GPU object, we need to break up the
long loop with cond_resched() to retain a modicum of low latency for
other processes.

Testcase: igt/benchmarks/gem_syslatency
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Kuo-Hsin Yang <vovoy at chromium.org>
Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld at intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
index b1caff07ed65..a120112d0621 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
@@ -2404,6 +2404,7 @@ i915_gem_object_put_pages_gtt(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj,
 			mark_page_accessed(page);
 
 		put_page(page);
+		cond_resched();
 	}
 	obj->mm.dirty = false;
 
@@ -2574,6 +2575,7 @@ static int i915_gem_object_get_pages_gtt(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj)
 		gfp_t gfp = noreclaim;
 
 		do {
+			cond_resched();
 			page = shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp(mapping, i, gfp);
 			if (likely(!IS_ERR(page)))
 				break;
@@ -2584,7 +2586,6 @@ static int i915_gem_object_get_pages_gtt(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj)
 			}
 
 			i915_gem_shrink(dev_priv, 2 * page_count, NULL, *s++);
-			cond_resched();
 
 			/*
 			 * We've tried hard to allocate the memory by reaping
-- 
2.19.1



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