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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
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.