Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 4 Jul 2009 09:27:54 +0800 | | From | Roger WANG <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] make mapped executable pages the first class citizen |
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Hello Jesse,
On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 00:43 +0800 Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:32:24 +0800 > Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 05:04:49PM +0800, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 17:00 +0800, Wu, Fengguang wrote: > > > > [add CC] > > > > > > > > This OOM case looks like the same bug encountered by David > > > > Howells. > > > > > > > > > Jun 18 07:44:53 jbarnes-g45 kernel: [64377.426766] > > > > > Active_anon:290797 active_file:28 inactive_anon:97034 Jun 18 > > > > > 07:44:53 jbarnes-g45 kernel: [64377.426767] inactive_file:61 > > > > > unevictable:11322 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 Jun 18 > > > > > 07:44:53 jbarnes-g45 kernel: [64377.426768] free:3341 > > > > > slab:13776 mapped:5880 pagetables:6851 bounce:0 > > > > > > > > active/inactive_anon pages take up 4/5 memory. Are you using > > > > TMPFS a lot? > > > > > > I suspect its his GEM thingy ;-) > > > > Very likely - GEM allocates drm objects from the internal tmpfs, > > and libdrm_intel seems to never free drm objects from its cache. > > Yeah, a good chunk of that is GEM objects. I generally haven't seen > OOMs due to excessive GEM allocation though, until recently. We've got > some patches queued up to manage the object cache better (actually free > pages when we don't need them!), so that should help.
Could you please point me to those patches so I can try them here? I have to kill my X once per day.
Thanks
--Roger > > -- > Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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