From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756813Ab0E0Bbx (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 May 2010 21:31:53 -0400 Received: from crca.org.au ([74.207.252.120]:53545 "EHLO crca.org.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755391Ab0E0Bbw (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 May 2010 21:31:52 -0400 X-Bogosity: Ham, spamicity=0.000000 Message-ID: <4BFDCB82.6030908@crca.org.au> Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 11:31:46 +1000 From: Nigel Cunningham User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100423 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" CC: pm list , LKML , TuxOnIce-devel Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Preallocate swap + minor fix. References: <4BFCC939.1000901@crca.org.au> <201005262321.09971.rjw@sisk.pl> In-Reply-To: <201005262321.09971.rjw@sisk.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi. On 27/05/10 07:21, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Wednesday 26 May 2010, Nigel Cunningham wrote: >> Hi all. >> >> In current in-kernel hibernation code, swap is allocated as the image is >> being written. >> >> The first four patches in this series rework things so that all swap >> that will be used is allocated prior to any data being written to disk. >> The fourth patch might look like too much for one patch, but it's >> necessary to not break bisecting. >> >> The fifth patch fixes a minor error in displaying the speed at which I/O >> occurred. >> >> This is the beginning of what I hope will be a long series of sets of >> patches, first working towards adding support for properly asynchronous >> I/O (not batching, as is currently done), then compression, multiple >> swap devices and more. In short, this is the beginning of work on >> merging TuxOnIce functionality a bit at a time. >> >> The work is coming now because I recently finished my previous job, so >> I'm seeking to get some of those jobs I've been wanting to do for a long >> time out of the way. If anyone wants to employ me to do this work, I >> wouldn't say no! :) >> >> Please excuse me if there are wrapping issues with the patches - I'm >> using Thunderbird, and haven't sent a patch series for quite a while, so >> don't remember the fancy git mailer way (will have to look it up). >> >> Rafael, these and future patches will be available at: >> >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nigelc/tuxonice-head.git#for-rafael > > Thanks for the patches, I'll have a look at them as soon as I can. Thank you! I've got other stuff to work on today, but hope to prepare another set of patches tomorrow. > I haven't replied to your hibernation algorithm idea, mostly because I didn't > have the time to look into it more thoroughly and I don't remember all of the > details. I'm still going to reply to it, though. Thanks. Nigel