[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v6] mm, drm/i915: mark pinned shmemfs pages as unevictable

Michal Hocko mhocko at kernel.org
Tue Nov 6 12:14:46 UTC 2018


On Tue 06-11-18 11:06:58, Chris Wilson wrote:
[...]
> The challenge for the patch as it stands, is who lands it? We can take
> it through drm-intel (for merging in 4.21) but need Andrew's ack on top
> of all to agree with that path. Or we split the patch and only land the
> i915 portion once we backmerge the mm tree. I think pushing the i915
> portion through the mm tree is going to cause the most conflicts, so
> would recommend against that.

I usually prefer new exports to go along with their users. I am pretty
sure that the core mm change can be routed via whatever tree needs that.
Up to Andrew but this doesn't seem to be conflicting with anything that
is going on in MM.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs


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