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Chris Wilson cb0aeaa818 drm/i915: Only free the oldest stale context before allocating
Currently, we move all unreferenced contexts to an RCU free list and
then onto a worker for eventual reaping. To compensate against this
growing into a long list with frequent allocations starving the system
of available memory, before we allocate a new context we reap all the
stale contexts. This puts all the cost of destroying the context into
the next allocator, which is presumably more sensitive to syscall
latency and unfair. We can limit the number of contexts being freed by
the new allocator to both keep the list trimmed and to allow the
allocator to be reasonably fast.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170705142634.18554-4-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
2017-07-06 11:51:52 +01:00
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README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.