Subject: Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm1 swsusp bug report.
From: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@linuxmail.org>
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To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>, Kevin Fenzi <kevin@scrye.com>,
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Hi.

On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 20:04, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Are we still planning on having suspend2 replace swsusp eventually? It
> > was a lot of work to switch from those high order allocations, and if we
> > are still going to replace swsusp, perhaps it's would be a better use of
> > your time to do other things?
> 
> I do not know if I'm more scared of swsusp1 to kill order-8
> allocations or if suspend2's two page sets scare me more. (Hooks
> suspend2 needs to stop all page cache activity are scary...)

Hooks to stop all page cache activity? I'm not sure what you mean.

> I certainly want some parts of suspend2 (like improved freezer, if it
> can be made small enough), but I'm no longer sure I want all of it. I
> expected many people complaining about highmem problems in swsusp1,
> and that just did not happen; SMP support turned out to be reasonably
> simple...

Okay. There are other advantages too, of course :>

Nigel

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