Re: i915: reduce noise from i915_gem_shrinker_oom when no memory freed.

[Chris Wilson]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 11:05:05PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> When the shrinker doesn't free any memory, don't spew over and over
> into the logs.  My fuzz tester hits this quite easily, resulting
> in dozens of instances of this printk when memory runs low, filling
> dmesg, when there's not even any graphical stuff going on, so the
> situation would never change.

We still want to know when we failed to free anything though.

if (freed || unbound || bound)
	pr_info("Purging GPU memory...

should be a reasonable compromise.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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