Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751091AbWBWMRg (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 07:17:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751108AbWBWMRg (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 07:17:36 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:10163 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751091AbWBWMRg (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 07:17:36 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:17:07 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Nigel Cunningham , Dmitry Torokhov , Andreas Happe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Suspend2 Devel List Subject: Re: Which is simpler? (Was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support.) Message-ID: <20060223121707.GP13621@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20060201113710.6320.68289.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <200602230031.41217.rjw@sisk.pl> <20060222235639.GK13621@elf.ucw.cz> <200602230944.26253.rjw@sisk.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200602230944.26253.rjw@sisk.pl> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1119 Lines: 30 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 -- Web maintainer for suspend.sf.net (www.sf.net/projects/suspend) wanted... - 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/