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Currently the TTM shrinker aborts shrinking as soon as it frees pages from any of the page order pools and by doing so it can fail to respect the freeing target which was configured by the shrinker core. We use the wording "can fail" because the number of freed pages will depend on the presence of pages in the pools and the order of the pools on the LRU list. For example if there are no free pages in the high order pools the shrinker core may require multiple passes over the TTM shrinker before it will free the default target of 128 pages (assuming there are free pages in the low order pools). This inefficiency can be compounded by the pool LRU where multiple further calls into the TTM shrinker are required to end up looking at the pool with pages. Improve this by never freeing less than the shrinker core has requested. At the same time we start reporting the number of scanned pages (freed in this case), which prevents the core shrinker from giving up on the TTM shrinker too soon and moving on. v2: * Simplify loop logic. (Christian) * Improve commit message. Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@igalia.com> Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> Cc: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tursulin@ursulin.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250603112750.34997-2-tvrtko.ursulin@igalia.com
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