Currently, we move all unreferenced contexts to an RCU free list and
then onto a worker for eventual reaping. To compensate against this
growing into a long list with frequent allocations starving the system
of available memory, before we allocate a new context we reap all the
stale contexts. This puts all the cost of destroying the context into
the next allocator, which is presumably more sensitive to syscall
latency and unfair. We can limit the number of contexts being freed by
the new allocator to both keep the list trimmed and to allow the
allocator to be reasonably fast.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170705142634.18554-4-chris@chris-wilson.co.ukReviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>