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-rw-r--r--drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.c11
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.c
index 72bdc203716f..a0f451b4a4e8 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.c
@@ -696,6 +696,17 @@ i915_gem_request_alloc(struct intel_engine_cs *engine,
if (ret)
goto err_unreserve;
+ /*
+ * We've forced the client to stall and catch up with whatever
+ * backlog there might have been. As we are assuming that we
+ * caused the mempressure, now is an opportune time to
+ * recover as much memory from the request pool as is possible.
+ * Having already penalized the client to stall, we spend
+ * a little extra time to re-optimise page allocation.
+ */
+ kmem_cache_shrink(dev_priv->requests);
+ rcu_barrier(); /* Recover the TYPESAFE_BY_RCU pages */
+
req = kmem_cache_alloc(dev_priv->requests, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!req) {
ret = -ENOMEM;