drm/i915: Remove __GFP_NORETRY from our buffer allocator
authorChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Fri, 9 Jun 2017 11:03:47 +0000 (12:03 +0100)
committerChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Wed, 14 Jun 2017 09:53:09 +0000 (10:53 +0100)
commiteaf41801559a687cc7511c04dc712984765c9dd7
tree9213bd671572f5b1a6e6308f89eecd230b6498bb
parent4846bf0ca8cb4304dde6140eff33a92b3fe8ef24
drm/i915: Remove __GFP_NORETRY from our buffer allocator

I tried __GFP_NORETRY in the belief that __GFP_RECLAIM was effective. It
struggles with handling reclaim of our dirty buffers and relies on
reclaim via kswapd. As a result, a single pass of direct reclaim is
unreliable when i915 occupies the majority of available memory, and the
only means of effectively waiting on kswapd to amke progress is by not
setting the __GFP_NORETRY flag and lopping. That leaves us with the
dilemma of invoking the oomkiller instead of propagating the allocation
failure back to userspace where it can be handled more gracefully (one
hopes).  In the future we may have __GFP_MAYFAIL to allow repeats up until
we genuinely run out of memory and the oomkiller would have been invoked.
Until then, let the oomkiller wreck havoc.

v2: Stop playing with side-effects of gfp flags and await __GFP_MAYFAIL
v3: Update comments that direct reclaim only appears to be ignoring our
dirty buffers!

Fixes: 24f8e00a8a2e ("drm/i915: Prefer to report ENOMEM rather than incur the oom for gfx allocations")
Testcase: igt/gem_tiled_swapping
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170609110350.1767-2-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c