Re: [PATCH v1 0/5] Add memory shrinker to VirtIO-GPU DRM driver

[Dmitry Osipenko]

On 3/8/22 19:29, Rob Clark wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2022 at 5:17 AM Dmitry Osipenko
> <dmitry.osipenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> This patchset introduces memory shrinker for the VirtIO-GPU DRM driver.
>> During OOM, the shrinker will release BOs that are marked as "not needed"
>> by userspace using the new madvise IOCTL. The userspace in this case is
>> the Mesa VirGL driver, it will mark the cached BOs as "not needed",
>> allowing kernel driver to release memory of the cached shmem BOs on lowmem
>> situations, preventing OOM kills.
> 
> Will host memory pressure already trigger shrinker in guest? 

The host memory pressure won't trigger shrinker in guest here. This
series will help only with the memory pressure within the guest using a
usual "virgl context".

Having a host shrinker in a case of "virgl contexts" should be a
difficult problem to solve.

> This is
> something I'm quite interested in for "virtgpu native contexts" (ie.
> native guest driver with new context type sitting on top of virtgpu),

In a case of "native contexts" it should be doable, at least I can't see
any obvious problems. The madvise invocations could be passed to the
host using a new virtio-gpu command by the guest's madvise IOCTL
handler, instead-of/in-addition-to handling madvise in the guest's
kernel, and that's it.

> since that isn't using host storage

s/host/guest ?