Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:17:07 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Which is simpler? (Was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support.) |
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Hi!
> > Ok, I have no problems with visions. > > > > > I think we should try to get the pagecache stuff right first anyway. > > > > Are you sure it is worth doing? I mean... it only helps on small > > machines, no? > > > > OTOH having it for benchmarks will be nice, and perhaps we could use > > that kind it to speed up boot and similar things... > > Currently some people can't suspend with the mainline code because it cannot > free as much memory as needed on their boxes. I think we should care for them > too.
But saving pagecache will not help them *at all*!
[Because pagecache is freeable, anyway, so it will be freed. Now... I have seen some problems where free_some_memory did not free enough, and schedule()/retry helped a bit... that probably should be fixed.]
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