On ke, 2017-05-24 at 17:26 +0100, Chris Wilson wrote: > I have a plan to write a quick test to exercise concurrent usage of > i915_gem_shrink(), the simplest way looks to be to have multiple threads > using debugfs/i915_drop_caches. However, we currently take one lock over > the entire function, serialising the calls into i915_gem_shrink() so > reduce the lock coverage. > > Testcase: igt/gem_shrink/reclaim > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <[email protected]> > Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <[email protected]>
<SNIP> > + if (val & DROP_RETIRE) > + i915_gem_retire_requests(dev_priv); > + > + mutex_unlock(&dev->struct_mutex); > + } > > lockdep_set_current_reclaim_state(GFP_KERNEL); Lock used to work as a serializer, isn't this going to get contended now? Regards, Joonas -- Joonas Lahtinen Open Source Technology Center Intel Corporation _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
