Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263002AbUKYHDa (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Nov 2004 02:03:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263000AbUKYHDM (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Nov 2004 02:03:12 -0500 Received: from pop5-1.us4.outblaze.com ([205.158.62.125]:16063 "HELO pop5-1.us4.outblaze.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263002AbUKYHAP (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Nov 2004 02:00:15 -0500 Subject: Re: Suspend 2 merge: 22/51: Suspend2 lowlevel code. From: Nigel Cunningham Reply-To: ncunningham@linuxmail.org To: Zwane Mwaikambo Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: <1101292194.5805.180.camel@desktop.cunninghams> <1101296166.5805.279.camel@desktop.cunninghams> <1101331206.3895.40.camel@desktop.cunninghams> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1101333392.3895.79.camel@desktop.cunninghams> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6-1mdk Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 08:56:32 +1100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1341 Lines: 37 Hi. On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 08:55, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > > That's roughly what we're doing now, apart from the offlining/onlining. > > I had considered trying to take better advantage of SMP support (perhaps > > run a decompression thread on one CPU and the writer on the other, eg), > > so we might want to apply this just to the region immediately around the > > atomic copy/restore. That makes me wonder, though, what the advantage is > > to switching to using the hotplug functionality - is it x86 only, or > > more cross platform? (If more cross platform, that might possibly be an > > advantage over the current code). > > It's cross platform and removes the requirement for patches like; > > Subject: Suspend 2 merge: 13/51: Disable highmem tlb flush for copyback. Good point. I didn't see that. Regards, Nigel -- Nigel Cunningham Pastoral Worker Christian Reformed Church of Tuggeranong PO Box 1004, Tuggeranong, ACT 2901 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. -- Romans 5:6 - 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/