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drm/i915: Create a kmem_cache to allocate struct i915_priolist from
authorChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Wed, 17 May 2017 12:10:04 +0000 (13:10 +0100)
committerChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Wed, 17 May 2017 12:38:12 +0000 (13:38 +0100)
commitd8a25704ad66e493c789cd3fd477b3075936804e
tree702c41615fc385f7bef80a5c7e564cbb8d343705
parentb559d64a0ed5d9c406099bec6ef7108238908a71
drm/i915: Create a kmem_cache to allocate struct i915_priolist from

The i915_priolist are allocated within an atomic context on a path where
we wish to minimise latency. If we use a dedicated kmem_cache, we have
the advantage of a local freelist from which to service new requests
that should keep the latency impact of an allocation small. Though
currently we expect the majority of requests to be at default priority
(and so hit the preallocate priolist), once userspace starts using
priorities they are likely to use many fine grained policies improving
the utilisation of a private slab.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170517121007.27224-9-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_guc_submission.c
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/selftests/mock_gem_device.c