i915: bail out earlier when shrinker cannot acquire mutex
authorGlauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org>
Wed, 28 Aug 2013 00:18:13 +0000 (10:18 +1000)
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tue, 10 Sep 2013 22:56:32 +0000 (18:56 -0400)
commit81e49f811404f428a9d9a63295a0c267e802fa12
treea94c50ce8e982747f63d94f1d9f67f6cd1aac087
parent7dc19d5affd71370754a2c3d36b485810eaee7a1
i915: bail out earlier when shrinker cannot acquire mutex

The main shrinker driver will keep trying for a while to free objects if
the returned value from the shrink scan procedure is 0.  That means "no
objects now", but a retry could very well succeed.

But what we should say here is a different thing: that it is impossible to
shrink, and we would better bail out soon.  We find this behavior more
appropriate for the case where the lock cannot be taken.  Specially given
the hammer behavior of the i915: if another thread is already shrinking,
we are likely not to be able to shrink anything anyway when we finally
acquire the mutex.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
Cc: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c