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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH 4/5] PM/Hibernate: Rework shrinking of memory
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On Thursday 07 May 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thursday 07 May 2009, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > Hi.
>
> Hi,
>
> > On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 00:44 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
> > >
> > > Rework swsusp_shrink_memory() so that it calls shrink_all_memory()
> > > just once to make some room for the image and then allocates memory
> > > to apply more pressure to the memory management subsystem, if
> > > necessary.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, we don't seem to be able to drop shrink_all_memory()
> > > entirely just yet, because that would lead to huge performance
> > > regressions in some test cases.
> >
> > I know it doesn't fit with your current way of doing things, but have
> > you considered trying larger order allocations as a means of getting
> > memory freed?
>
> Actually, I was thinking about that. What's your experience with this
> approach?
>
> > I have code in tuxonice_prepare_image.c (look for extra_pages_allocated) that
> > might be helpful for this purpose.
>
> OK, thanks. I'll have a look at it.

I have tried it, but the results are even worse than with 0-order allocations
only.

So far, I have got the best results with shrink_all_memory() called once and
followed by allocating as much memory as we want to be free using 0-order
allocations. Like in this patch. :-)

Thanks,
Rafael


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