Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | Software suspend testing in 2.6.0-test1 | From | Peter Osterlund <> | Date | 17 Jul 2003 21:46:32 +0200 |
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Hi,
I have done some testing of the software suspend function in 2.6.0-test1. It works mostly very well, but I have found two problems.
The first problem is that software suspend fails if a process is stopped before you invoke suspend. (For example, by starting cat from the shell and pressing ctrl-z.) When the processes are woken up again, the cat process is stuck in the schedule loop in refrigerator(), sucking up all available cpu time.
The second problem is that freeing memory seems to be much slower than it has to be. It appears to be caused by the call to blk_congestion_wait() in balance_pgdat(). The patch below makes page freeing much faster, although I'm quite sure the patch is not correct.
How can we fix this properly? The disk is mostly idle during page freeing, but it looks like blk_congestion_wait still doesn't return until the timeout expires. I tried HZ/2 and that made the page freeing extremely slow.
--- linux/mm/vmscan.c.old Thu Jul 17 21:30:09 2003 +++ linux/mm/vmscan.c Thu Jul 17 21:29:58 2003 @@ -930,7 +930,7 @@ } if (all_zones_ok) break; - blk_congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10); + blk_congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/50); } return nr_pages - to_free; } -- Peter Osterlund - petero2@telia.com http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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