[PATCH v2] drm/i915: Do not sync RCU during shrinking

* [PATCH v2] drm/i915: Do not sync RCU during shrinking
@ 2017-05-10 10:20 Joonas Lahtinen
  2017-05-10 10:38 ` ✓ Fi.CI.BAT: success for drm/i915: Do not sync RCU during shrinking (rev2) Patchwork
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Joonas Lahtinen @ 2017-05-10 10:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Intel graphics driver community testing & development
  Cc: Andrea Arcangeli, Jani Nikula, Hugh Dickins, stable, J . R . Okajima

Due to the complex dependencies between workqueues and RCU, which
are not easily detected by lockdep, do not synchronize RCU during
shrinking.

On low-on-memory systems (mem=1G for example), the RCU sync leads
to all system workqueus freezing and unrelated lockdep splats are
displayed according to reports. GIT bisecting done by J. R.
Okajima points to the commit where RCU syncing was extended.

RCU sync gains us very little benefit in real life scenarios
where the amount of memory used by object backing storage is
dominant over the metadata under RCU, so drop it altogether.

 " Yeeeaah, if core could just, go ahead and reclaim RCU
   queues, that'd be great. "

  - Chris Wilson, 2016 (0eafec6d3244)

v2: More information to commit message.

Fixes: c053b5a506d3 ("drm/i915: Don't call synchronize_rcu_expedited under struct_mutex")
Suggested-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reported-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Tested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Cc: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.11+
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c
index 0e7352d..e1868ed 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c
@@ -59,9 +59,6 @@ static void shrinker_unlock(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv, bool unlock)
 		return;
 
 	mutex_unlock(&dev_priv->drm.struct_mutex);
-
-	/* expedite the RCU grace period to free some request slabs */
-	synchronize_rcu_expedited();
 }
 
 static bool any_vma_pinned(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj)
-- 
2.7.4

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