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drm/i915: First try a normal large kmalloc for the temporary exec buffers
authorChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:54:48 +0000 (12:54 +0000)
committerChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:56:16 +0000 (15:56 +0000)
As we just need a temporary array whilst performing the relocations for
the execbuffer, first attempt to allocate using kmalloc even if it is
not of order page-0. This avoids the overhead of remapping the
discontiguous array and so gives a moderate boost to execution
throughput.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c

index a72e7b2cb04810e613e76a48a727de6c1ead363e..f0c93b2e6c68730fc9bce5e8ffd5d6e570350d6f 100644 (file)
@@ -1306,7 +1306,11 @@ i915_gem_execbuffer2(struct drm_device *dev, void *data,
                return -EINVAL;
        }
 
-       exec2_list = drm_malloc_ab(sizeof(*exec2_list), args->buffer_count);
+       exec2_list = kmalloc(sizeof(*exec2_list)*args->buffer_count,
+                            GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY);
+       if (exec2_list == NULL)
+               exec2_list = drm_malloc_ab(sizeof(*exec2_list),
+                                          args->buffer_count);
        if (exec2_list == NULL) {
                DRM_ERROR("Failed to allocate exec list for %d buffers\n",
                          args->buffer_count);