[Intel-xe] [RFC PATCH 3/4] drm/ttm: Handle -EAGAIN in ttm_resource_alloc as -ENOSPC.

Thomas Hellström thomas.hellstrom at linux.intel.com
Wed May 3 09:11:32 UTC 2023


Hi, Maarten

On 5/3/23 10:34, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> This allows the drm cgroup controller to return no space is available..
>
> XXX: This is a hopeless simplification that changes behavior, and
> returns -ENOSPC even if we could evict ourselves from the current
> cgroup.
>
> Ideally, the eviction code becomes cgroup aware, and will force eviction
> from the current cgroup or its parents.
>
> Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at linux.intel.com>

Thinking of the shrinker analogy, do non-cgroup aware shrinkers just 
shrink blindly or do they reject shrinking like this patch when a cgroup 
limit is reached?

/Thomas


> ---
>   drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.c | 4 +++-
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.c
> index bd5dae4d1624..e057d5d8f09a 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.c
> @@ -731,6 +731,8 @@ static int ttm_bo_mem_force_space(struct ttm_buffer_object *bo,
>   		ret = ttm_resource_alloc(bo, place, mem);
>   		if (likely(!ret))
>   			break;
> +		if (ret == -EAGAIN)
> +			return -ENOSPC;
>   		if (unlikely(ret != -ENOSPC))
>   			return ret;
>   		ret = ttm_mem_evict_first(bdev, man, place, ctx,
> @@ -783,7 +785,7 @@ int ttm_bo_mem_space(struct ttm_buffer_object *bo,
>   
>   		type_found = true;
>   		ret = ttm_resource_alloc(bo, place, mem);
> -		if (ret == -ENOSPC)
> +		if (ret == -ENOSPC || ret == -EAGAIN)
>   			continue;
>   		if (unlikely(ret))
>   			goto error;


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