Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Aug 2006 13:27:01 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm 1/5] swsusp: Introduce memory bitmaps |
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Hi!
> > > Introduce the memory bitmap data structure and make swsusp use in the suspend > > > phase. > > > > > > The current swsusp's internal data structure is not very efficient from the > > > memory usage point of view, so it seems reasonable to replace it with a data > > > structure that will require less memory, such as a pair of bitmaps. > > > > Well, 500 lines of code for what... 0.25% bigger image? I see it > > enables you to do some cleanups... but could we get those cleanups > > without those 500 lines? :-). > > Out of the 500 lines, something like 100 are comments and other 50 are > definitions of structures. ;-)
Yes, and of the 100 lines of comments, 10 are fixmes :-).
> Seriously speaking, I could do that without the bitmaps, but the code wouldn't > be that much shorter. Apart from this, I would need to introduce yet another > type of PBEs (for storing pfns) and try not to get lost in the resulting mess. > > Instead of doing this I prefer to add some extra code to set up a decent data > structure and just use it.
Okay, I guess that if we need to change the structure anyway, we may well use the effective structure...
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