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SubjectRe: When will the lunacy end? (Was Re: [PATCH] uswsusp: add pmops->{prepare,enter,finish} support (aka "platform mode"))
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On Tuesday, 26 September 2006 00:45, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Mon 2006-09-25 14:45:58, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 07:34:03 +1000
> > Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@linuxmail.org> wrote:
> >
> > > </rant>
> >
> > metoo! I'd suggest that it'd be better to be expending the grey cells on
> > making the present suspend stuff nice and solid, stable and fast.
>
> [Un?]fortunately, Novell has some suggestions how I should expend my
> grey cells in this area.
>
> Anyway you want:
>
> nice)
> not sure if me + Rafael can do much here. Perhaps someone else
> has to go through the code and rewrite it one more time? Or do
> you have specific areas where suspend is really ugly?
>
> solid)
> apart from HIGHMEM64G fiasco, and related agpgart fiasco long
> time before that... these are driver problems...
>
> stable)
> I believe we are doing pretty well in this area. We did not
> have too many regressions, did we? (And notice that nice+fast
> are actually both conflicting goals with stable).
>
> fast)
> frankly, that is not my priority for in-kernel
> suspend. uswsusp will always be few seconds faster, thanks to
> LZW. If we do 40MB/sec or 50MB/sec during write is not that
> important. Patches are always welcome.

Actually, swsusp with the speed-up patches requires quite a lot of RAM to
write to disk asynchronously. This effectively means that on my box the image
size should not exceed 3/8 of the total RAM size, or the synchronous writing
will start due to the lack of memory.

uswsusp doesn't seem to have this problem.

Greetings,
Rafael


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