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kmalloc uses power-of-two slab buckets for small allocations (up to a few pages). Since i915_page_directory is a page of pointers, plus a couple more, this is rounded up to 8K, and we waste nearly 50% of that allocation. Long terms this leads to poor memory utilisation, bloating the kernel footprint, but the problem is exacerbated by our conservative preallocation scheme for binding VMA. As we are required to allocate all levels for each vma just in case we need to insert them upon binding, this leads to a large multiplication factor for a single page vma. By halving the allocation we need for the page directory structure, we halve the impact of that factor, bringing workloads that once fitted into memory, hopefully back to fitting into memory. We maintain the split between i915_page_directory and i915_page_table as we only need half the allocation for the lowest, most populous, level. Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com> Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200729164219.5737-3-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
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.