We use WC pages for coherent writes into the ppGTT on !llc
architectures. However, to create a WC page requires a stop_machine(),
i.e. is very slow. To compensate we currently keep a per-vm cache of
recently freed pages, but we still see the slow startup of new contexts.
We can amoritize that cost slightly by allocating WC pages in small
batches (PAGEVEC_SIZE == 14) and since creating a WC page implies a
stop_machine() there is no penalty for keeping that stash global.
Signed-off-by: NChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: NMatthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170822173828.5932-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk