[PATCH 0/2] shmem, drm/i915: Mark pinned shmemfs pages as unevictable

From: Kuo-Hsin Yang
Date: Tue Oct 16 2018 - 13:44:03 EST


When a graphics heavy application is running, i915 driver may pin a lot
of shmemfs pages and vmscan slows down significantly by scanning these
pinned pages. This patch is an alternative to the patch by Chris Wilson
[1]. As i915 driver pins all pages in an address space, marking an
address space as unevictable is sufficient to solve this issue.

[1]: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9768741/

Kuo-Hsin Yang (2):
shmem: export shmem_unlock_mapping
drm/i915: Mark pinned shmemfs pages as unevictable

Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.rst | 4 +++-
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 8 ++++++++
mm/shmem.c | 2 ++
3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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