[PATCH 2/2] drm/i915: Mark pinned shmemfs pages as unevictable

From: Kuo-Hsin Yang
Date: Tue Oct 16 2018 - 13:44:24 EST


The i915 driver use shmemfs to allocate backing storage for gem objects.
These shmemfs pages can be pinned (increased ref count) by
shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp(). When a lot of pages are pinned, vmscan
wastes a lot of time scanning these pinned pages. Mark these pinned
pages as unevictable to speed up vmscan.

Signed-off-by: Kuo-Hsin Yang <vovoy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
index fcc73a6ab503..e0ff5b736128 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
@@ -2390,6 +2390,7 @@ i915_gem_object_put_pages_gtt(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj,
{
struct sgt_iter sgt_iter;
struct page *page;
+ struct address_space *mapping;

__i915_gem_object_release_shmem(obj, pages, true);

@@ -2409,6 +2410,10 @@ i915_gem_object_put_pages_gtt(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj,
}
obj->mm.dirty = false;

+ mapping = file_inode(obj->base.filp)->i_mapping;
+ mapping_clear_unevictable(mapping);
+ shmem_unlock_mapping(mapping);
+
sg_free_table(pages);
kfree(pages);
}
@@ -2551,6 +2556,7 @@ static int i915_gem_object_get_pages_gtt(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj)
* Fail silently without starting the shrinker
*/
mapping = obj->base.filp->f_mapping;
+ mapping_set_unevictable(mapping);
noreclaim = mapping_gfp_constraint(mapping, ~__GFP_RECLAIM);
noreclaim |= __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN;

@@ -2664,6 +2670,8 @@ static int i915_gem_object_get_pages_gtt(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj)
err_pages:
for_each_sgt_page(page, sgt_iter, st)
put_page(page);
+ mapping_clear_unevictable(mapping);
+ shmem_unlock_mapping(mapping);
sg_free_table(st);
kfree(st);

--
2.19.1.331.ge82ca0e54c-goog