Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Do not sync RCU during shrinking

2017-05-05 Thread Chris Wilson
On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 12:40:09PM +0300, Joonas Lahtinen wrote: > Due to the complex dependencies between workqueues and RCU, which > are not easily detected by lockdep, do not synchronize RCU during > shrinking. RCU sync gains us very little benefit in real life > scenarios where the amount of

[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Do not sync RCU during shrinking

2017-05-05 Thread Joonas Lahtinen
Due to the complex dependencies between workqueues and RCU, which are not easily detected by lockdep, do not synchronize RCU during shrinking. 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