On Tue, 11 May 2010 16:55:27 +0100, Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> By keeping buffers that are in use by the CPU, having been mmapped and
> moved to the CPU or GTT domain since their last rendering on a separate
> inactive list, prevents the first-pass eviction process from unbinding
> one of these buffers. Those buffers are evicted as normal during
> evict-everything so that the memory can be recovered under high pressure
> or a forced idle.
> 
> References:
> 
>   Bug 20152 - [G45/GM965 UXA] cannot view JPG in firefox when running UXA
>   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20152
> 
>   Bug 24369 - Hang when scrolling firefox page with window in front
>   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24369
> 
>   Bug 15911 -  Intermittent X crash (freeze)
>   https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15911

Couldn't this be more easily handled by the times where you would move
to the tail of mmap, just move to the tail of inactive?  Since inactive
is "obj_priv->gtt_space && !obj_priv->active" already.