From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail143.messagelabs.com (mail143.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 71FCF6B004D for ; Fri, 15 May 2009 09:11:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 15:11:16 +0200 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] PM/Hibernate: Do not release preallocated memory unnecessarily (rev. 2) Message-ID: <20090515131115.GC1976@elf.ucw.cz> References: <200905070040.08561.rjw@sisk.pl> <200905131040.37831.rjw@sisk.pl> <20090514110958.GA8871@elf.ucw.cz> <200905141952.21267.rjw@sisk.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200905141952.21267.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: pm list , Wu Fengguang , Andrew Morton , LKML , Nigel Cunningham , David Rientjes , "linux-mm@kvack.org" List-ID: On Thu 2009-05-14 19:52:20, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Thursday 14 May 2009, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi! > > > > > Since the hibernation code is now going to use allocations of memory > > > to make enough room for the image, it can also use the page frames > > > allocated at this stage as image page frames. The low-level > > > hibernation code needs to be rearranged for this purpose, but it > > > allows us to avoid freeing a great number of pages and allocating > > > these same pages once again later, so it generally is worth doing. > > > > > > [rev. 2: Take highmem into account correctly.] > > > > I don't get it. What is advantage of this patch? It makes the code > > more complex... Is it supposed to be faster? > > Yes, in some test cases it is reported to be faster (along with [4/6], > actually). > > Besides, we'd like to get rid of shrink_all_memory() eventually and it is a > step in this direction. Ok, but maybe we should wait with applying this until we have patches that actually get us rid of shrink_all_memory? Maybe it will not be feasible for speed reasons after all, or something... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org