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drm/i915: Move object release to a freelist + worker
authorChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Fri, 28 Oct 2016 12:58:42 +0000 (13:58 +0100)
committerChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Fri, 28 Oct 2016 19:53:49 +0000 (20:53 +0100)
commit254199ca8f795737995d9bcd2f2f594c38f4ecd9
tree57e390a37058d0648818e6b96eb0769b90cd57f9
parent4f4d122b935a6bdd4b34c913729241ab27841529
drm/i915: Move object release to a freelist + worker

We want to hide the latency of releasing objects and their backing
storage from the submission, so we move the actual free to a worker.
This allows us to switch to struct_mutex freeing of the object in the
next patch.

Furthermore, if we know that the object we are dereferencing remains valid
for the duration of our access, we can forgo the usual synchronisation
barriers and atomic reference counting. To ensure this we defer freeing
an object til after an RCU grace period, such that any lookup of the
object within an RCU read critical section will remain valid until
after we exit that critical section. We also employ this delay for
rate-limiting the serialisation on reallocation - we have to slow down
object creation in order to prevent resource starvation (in particular,
files).

v2: Return early in i915_gem_tiling() ioctl to skip over superfluous
work on error.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20161028125858.23563-19-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_tiling.c