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Commit 6846895f authored by Chris Wilson's avatar Chris Wilson
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drm/i915: Replace PIN_NONFAULT with calls to PIN_NOEVICT

When under severe stress for GTT mappable space, the LRU eviction model
falls off a cliff. We spend all our time scanning the much larger
non-mappable area searching for something within the mappable zone we can
evict. Turn this on its head by only using the full vma for the object if
it is already pinned in the mappable zone or there is sufficient *free*
space to accommodate it (prioritizing speedy reuse). If there is not,
immediately fall back to using small chunks (tilerow for GTT mmap, single
pages for pwrite/relocation) and using random eviction before doing a full
search.

Testcase: igt/gem_concurrent_blt
References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110848


Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMatthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190821123234.19194-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
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