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SubjectRe: Which is simpler? (Was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support.)
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.]

Pavel
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