Currently the purgeable objects, I915_MADV_DONTNEED, are mixed in the
normal bound/unbound lists. Every shrinker pass starts with an attempt
to purge from this set of unneeded objects, which entails us doing a
walk over both lists looking for any candidates. If there are none, and
since we are shrinking we can reasonably assume that the lists are
full!, this becomes a very slow futile walk.
If we separate out the purgeable objects into own list, this search then
becomes its own phase that is preferentially handled during shrinking.
Instead the cost becomes that we then need to filter the purgeable list
if we want to distinguish between bound and unbound objects.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.william.auld@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.william.auld@gmail.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190530203500.26272-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Out scatterlist utility routines can be pulled out of i915_gem.h for a
bit more decluttering.
v2: Push I915_GTT_PAGE_SIZE out of i915_scatterlist itself and into the
caller.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190528092956.14910-9-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Chris Wilson