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As we increase the number of RCU objects, it becomes easier for us to have several hundred thousand objects in the deferred RCU free queues. An example is gem_ctx_create/files which continually creates active contexts, which are not immediately freed upon close as they are kept alive by outstanding requests. This lack of backpressure allows the context objects to persist until they overwhelm and starve the system. We can increase our backpressure by flushing the freed object queue upon closing the device fd which should then not impact other clients. Testcase: igt/gem_ctx_create/*files Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Reviewed-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190802212137.22207-2-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.