Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Nov 2011 19:22:44 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] PM: HIBERNATION: skip the swap size check if the snapshot image size is anticipative |
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Hi!
> From: Barry Song <Baohua.Song@csr.com> > > Current swsusp requires swap partitions even larger than real saved pages > due to the worst compress ratio: > but for an embedded system, which has limited storage space, then it might > can't give the big size partition to save snapshot. > In the another way, some embedded systems can definitely know the most size > needed for snapshot since they run some specific application lists. > So this patch provides the possibility for bootloader to tell kernel even > the system has a little snapshot partition, but it is still enough. > For example, if the system need to save 120MB memory, origin swsusp will require > a 130MB partition to save snapshot. but if users know 30MB is enough for them( > compressed image will be less than 30MB), they just make a 30MB > partition.
Would it be better to have /sys/power/... entry which would allow configuring expected compression ratio at runtime? Pavel
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