Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: [Update][PATCH] MM / PM: Force GFP_NOIO during suspend/hibernation and resume | Date | Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:49:18 +0100 |
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On Saturday 23 January 2010, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 22:19 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Friday 22 January 2010, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > > > On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 10:42 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > > > > > > > Probably we have multiple option. but I don't think GFP_NOIO is good > > > > > > > option. It assume the system have lots non-dirty cache memory and it isn't > > > > > > > guranteed. > > > > > > > > > > > > Basically nothing is guaranteed in this case. However, does it actually make > > > > > > things _worse_? > > > > > > > > > > Hmm.. > > > > > Do you mean we don't need to prevent accidental suspend failure? > > > > > Perhaps, I did misunderstand your intention. If you think your patch solve > > > > > this this issue, I still disagree. but If you think your patch mitigate > > > > > the pain of this issue, I agree it. I don't have any reason to oppose your > > > > > first patch. > > > > > > > > One question. Have anyone tested Rafael's $subject patch? > > > > Please post test result. if the issue disapper by the patch, we can > > > > suppose the slowness is caused by i/o layer. > > > > > > I did. > > > > > > As far as I could see, patch does solve the problem I described. > > > > > > Does it affect speed of suspend? I can't say for sure. It seems to be > > > the same. > > > > Thanks for testing. > > I'll test that too, soon. > Just to note that I left my hibernate loop run overnight, and now I am > posting from my notebook after it did 590 hibernate cycles.
Did you have a chance to test it?
> Offtopic, but Note that to achieve that I had to stop using global acpi > hardware lock. I tried all kinds of things, but for now it just hands > from time to time. > See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14668
I'm going to look at that later this week, although I'm not sure I can do more than Alex about that.
Rafael
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