drm/i915: Track unbound pages

When dealing with a working set larger than the GATT, or even the
mappable aperture when touching through the GTT, we end up with evicting
objects only to rebind them at a new offset again later. Moving an
object into and out of the GTT requires clflushing the pages, thus
causing a double-clflush penalty for rebinding.

To avoid having to clflush on rebinding, we can track the pages as they
are evicted from the GTT and only relinquish those pages on memory
pressure.

As usual, if it were not for the handling of out-of-memory condition and
having to manually shrink our own bo caches, it would be a net reduction
of code. Alas.

Note: The patch also contains a few changes to the last-hope
evict_everything logic in i916_gem_execbuffer.c - we no longer try to
only evict the purgeable stuff in a first try (since that's superflous
and only helps in OOM corner-cases, not fragmented-gtt trashing
situations).

Also, the extraction of the get_pages retry loop from bind_to_gtt (and
other callsites) to get_pages should imo have been a separate patch.

v2: Ditch the newly added put_pages (for unbound objects only) in
i915_gem_reset. A quick irc discussion hasn't revealed any important
reason for this, so if we need this, I'd like to have a git blame'able
explanation for it.

v3: Undo the s/drm_malloc_ab/kmalloc/ in get_pages that Chris noticed.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
[danvet: Split out code movements and rant a bit in the commit message
with a few Notes. Done v2]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
index afb312ee050c..834a636b44f0 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
@@ -502,17 +502,12 @@ i915_gem_execbuffer_reserve(struct intel_ring_buffer *ring,
 			}
 		}
 
-		if (ret != -ENOSPC || retry > 1)
+		if (ret != -ENOSPC || retry++)
 			return ret;
 
-		/* First attempt, just clear anything that is purgeable.
-		 * Second attempt, clear the entire GTT.
-		 */
-		ret = i915_gem_evict_everything(ring->dev, retry == 0);
+		ret = i915_gem_evict_everything(ring->dev);
 		if (ret)
 			return ret;
-
-		retry++;
 	} while (1);
 
 err: