linux/drivers/gpu
Zack Rusin 8aadeb8ad8 drm/vmwgfx: Remove the dedicated memory accounting
vmwgfx shared very elaborate memory accounting with ttm. It was moved
from ttm to vmwgfx in change
f07069da6b ("drm/ttm: move memory accounting into vmwgfx v4")
but because of complexity it was hard to maintain. Some parts of the code
weren't freeing memory correctly and  some were missing accounting all
together. While those would be fairly easy to fix the fundamental reason
for memory accounting in the driver was the ability to invoke shrinker
which is part of TTM code as well (with support for unified memory
hopefully coming soon).

That meant that vmwgfx had a lot of code that was either unused or
duplicating code from TTM. Removing this code also prevents excessive
calls to global swapout which were common during memory pressure
because both vmwgfx and TTM would invoke the shrinker when memory
usage reached half of RAM.

Fixes: f07069da6b ("drm/ttm: move memory accounting into vmwgfx v4")
Signed-off-by: Zack Rusin <zackr@vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Krastev <krastevm@vmware.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20211206172620.3139754-2-zack@kde.org
2021-12-09 13:16:10 -05:00
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drm drm/vmwgfx: Remove the dedicated memory accounting 2021-12-09 13:16:10 -05:00
host1x gpu: host1x: Plug potential memory leak 2021-09-16 18:06:52 +02:00
ipu-v3 media: i.MX6: Support 16-bit BT.1120 video input 2021-10-19 08:08:38 +01:00
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