Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 00:37:53 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@linuxmail.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Suspend 2 merge: 37/51: Memory pool support.
Message-ID: <20041125233753.GD2909@elf.ucw.cz>
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Hi!

> This is the memory pool support. It handles all pages freed and
> allocated between the preparation of the image and the completion of
> resuming, except prior to restoring the original kernel at resume time.
> It is designed for speed and to match the fact that suspend2 just about
> exclusively uses order 0 allocations. ("Just about" is why a couple of
> order one and two allocations are also available).

You really should use generic routines. Having your own malloc of
course allows you to be slightly faster; but it also means that code
is much bigger and much uglier.
								Pavel
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