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From: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm 1/2] swsusp: Free more memory
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:22:35 +1000
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Hi.

On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 11:37 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Sunday, 22 April 2007 01:31, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > Hi.
> >=20
> > On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 00:05 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
> > >=20
> > > Move the definition of PAGES_FOR_IO to kernel/power/power.h and intro=
duce
> > > SPARE_PAGES representing the number of pages that should be freed by =
the
> > > swsusp's memory shrinker in addition to PAGES_FOR_IO so that device d=
rivers can
> > > allocate some memory (up to 1 MB total) in their .suspend() routines =
without
> > > causing the suspend to fail.
> >=20
> > 1MB is not going to be enough for people with DRI. I have a cycle on my
> > machine recording 3510 extra pages (13 meg) allocated during the atomic
> > copy, and I know there are others with larger numbers.
>=20
> I know.  The other mechanism (ie. notifiers) is for them.
>=20
> The idea of this patch is to make it possible to _avoid_ using the notifi=
ers
> if you need only a limited amount of memory.

That's fine when the notifiers are actually used, but for the moment....

Regards,

Nigel

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