drm/i915: Remove __GFP_NORETRY from our buffer allocator
I tried __GFP_NORETRY in the belief that __GFP_RECLAIM was effective. It
struggles with handling reclaim of our dirty buffers and relies on
reclaim via kswapd. As a result, a single pass of direct reclaim is
unreliable when i915 occupies the majority of available memory, and the
only means of effectively waiting on kswapd to amke progress is by not
setting the __GFP_NORETRY flag and lopping. That leaves us with the
dilemma of invoking the oomkiller instead of propagating the allocation
failure back to userspace where it can be handled more gracefully (one
hopes). In the future we may have __GFP_MAYFAIL to allow repeats up until
we genuinely run out of memory and the oomkiller would have been invoked.
Until then, let the oomkiller wreck havoc.
v2: Stop playing with side-effects of gfp flags and await __GFP_MAYFAIL
v3: Update comments that direct reclaim only appears to be ignoring our
dirty buffers!
Fixes: 24f8e00a8a2e ("drm/i915: Prefer to report ENOMEM rather than incur the oom for gfx allocations")
Testcase: igt/gem_tiled_swapping
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170609110350.1767-2-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
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