Re: swsusp performance problems in 2.6.15-rc3-mm1

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

Hi,

On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 19:15, Andy Isaacson wrote:
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> 
> I'm suggesting that rather than writing the clean pages out to the
> image, simply make their metadata available to a post-resume userland
> helper.  Something like
> 
> % head -2 /dev/swsusp-helper
> /bin/sh 105-115 192 199-259
> /lib/libc-2.3.2.so 1-250
> 
> where the userland program is expected to use the list of page numbers
> (and getpagesize(2)) to asynchronously page in the working set in an
> ionice'd manner.

The helper is not necessary, I think.

What we can do is to skip blank pages while writing the image and only use
place holders for them in metadata.  Then we can make them blank again
when we load the image into memory.

Still, this would require some considerable changes in the swap-handling
part of swsusp and lots of testing.

Greetings,
Rafael


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