From: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>
To: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tuxonice-devel@lists.tuxonice.net
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>
Subject: [RFC] TuxOnIce
Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 00:38:56 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1241620755-22133-1-git-send-email-nigel@tuxonice.net> (raw)
I'd like to submit TuxOnIce for review, with a view to seeking to get it
merged, perhaps in 2.6.31 or .32 (depending upon what needs work before
it can be merged) and the willingness of those who matter.
To briefly summarise the advantages to merging TuxOnIce:
- Support for multiple swap devices
- Support for non-swap (an ordinary file can be used)
- Uses cryptoapi (LZO support, more than 2x speed of uncompressed data!)
- Asynchronous I/O, readahead, multithreaded. Get the maximum throughput
possible with your hardware.
- Userspace user interface that lets you abort hibernating and abort
resuming, get nice progress display etc.
- 8 years of testing and improvement.
- Full image of memory (LRU pages that don't need to be atomically
copied are saved prior to the atomic copy, then used as the
destination of the atomic copy).
- Support for resuming a different image after writing an image - makes
powering down a UPS after writing an image doable.
- Simple to set up (works without any userspace binaries, uses existing
resume= and noresume commandline parameters).
Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>
next reply other threads:[~2009-05-06 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 141+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-06 14:38 Nigel Cunningham [this message]
2009-05-06 14:38 ` [PATCH 1/19] TuxOnIce: Documentation Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-16 20:10 ` Vegard Nossum
2009-05-16 22:18 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-06 14:38 ` [PATCH 2/19] TuxOnIce: GEMS support Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-06 14:38 ` [PATCH 3/19] TuxOnIce: Make drop_pagecache non-static and declared in mm.h Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-06 14:39 ` [PATCH 4/19] TuxOnIce: Add support for just thawing kernel threads Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-06 14:39 ` [PATCH 5/19] TuxOnIce: Create means of determining how many pages can be allocated Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-06 14:39 ` [PATCH 6/19] TuxOnIce: Make functions and variables shared with swsusp non-static Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-06 14:39 ` [PATCH 7/19] TuxOnIce: Modify swsusp bitmaps to allow modification during scanning Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-06 14:39 ` [PATCH 8/19] TuxOnIce: Add core TuxOnIce code Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-06 14:39 ` [PATCH 9/19] TuxOnIce: Netlink support Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-06 21:03 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-05-06 21:35 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-07 4:34 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-05-06 14:39 ` [PATCH 10/19] TuxOnIce: Storage manager support Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-06 14:39 ` [PATCH 11/19] TuxOnIce: Block I/O engine Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-06 14:39 ` [PATCH 12/19] TuxOnIce: Compression support Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-06 14:39 ` [PATCH 13/19] TuxOnIce: File allocator Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-06 14:39 ` [PATCH 14/19] TuxOnIce: Swap support Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-06 14:39 ` [PATCH 15/19] TuxOnIce: Userspace user interface support Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-06 14:39 ` [PATCH 16/19] TuxOnIce: Warn user if an initrd doesn't include an attempt at resuming Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-06 14:39 ` [PATCH 17/19] TuxOnIce: Support for replacing swsusp Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-06 14:39 ` [PATCH 18/19] TuxOnIce: Provide a means of determining the freezer state Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-06 14:39 ` [PATCH 19/19] TuxOnIce: Don't try to wake kswapd if the freezer is on Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-07 12:09 ` [RFC] TuxOnIce Pavel Machek
2009-05-07 15:28 ` [TuxOnIce-devel] " Kenneth Crudup
2009-05-07 17:05 ` Kenneth Crudup
2009-05-09 9:10 ` Stefan Richter
2009-05-10 5:37 ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-10 5:37 ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-07 16:55 ` U Kuehn
2009-05-07 17:45 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-05-07 17:49 ` Kenneth Crudup
2009-05-07 18:54 ` Fabio Comolli
2009-05-07 18:57 ` Kenneth Crudup
2009-05-07 17:52 ` Matt Price
2009-05-07 18:22 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-05-07 18:57 ` Fabio Comolli
2009-05-07 19:27 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-05-07 20:41 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-07 23:14 ` Jesse Barnes
2009-05-07 23:32 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-07 23:43 ` Jesse Barnes
2009-05-08 0:13 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-08 0:39 ` Jesse Barnes
2009-05-08 0:49 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-08 0:18 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-05-07 21:46 ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-08 7:11 ` Fabio Comolli
2009-05-07 21:42 ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-08 0:11 ` Alex Goebel
2009-05-07 17:42 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-05-07 20:37 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-07 21:51 ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-08 1:34 ` [TuxOnIce-devel] " Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-08 14:11 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-05-08 21:52 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-08 22:46 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-05-08 23:30 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-08 23:43 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-05-25 10:05 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-25 12:43 ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-25 13:15 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-25 21:43 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
[not found] ` <1243288705.16743.129.camel@nigel-laptop>
2009-05-25 22:39 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-05-26 0:39 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-26 22:27 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-05-27 0:02 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-27 18:26 ` [linux-pm] " Len Brown
2009-05-25 22:45 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-05-25 22:58 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-05-25 23:13 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-05-27 14:38 ` Martin Steigerwald
2009-05-26 0:42 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-26 9:19 ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-26 11:07 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-05-26 21:33 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-26 21:56 ` [linux-pm] " Alan Stern
2009-05-26 22:24 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-05-27 0:00 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-26 23:59 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-26 21:36 ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-26 21:29 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-26 22:51 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-05-26 23:10 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-05-26 0:42 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-08 23:44 ` Ray Lee
2009-05-27 19:10 ` Len Brown
2009-05-27 23:43 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-09 13:54 ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-25 9:53 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-25 22:02 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-05-26 0:19 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-26 22:37 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-05-27 0:06 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-28 11:50 ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-09 13:27 ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-09 19:32 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-05-09 22:22 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-14 9:16 ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-16 23:11 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-09 13:03 ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-08 19:44 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-05-08 21:03 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-05-08 22:37 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-08 21:59 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-08 23:05 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-05-08 23:15 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-09 13:58 ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-25 9:27 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-25 12:32 ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-25 13:22 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-05-25 13:26 ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-25 21:50 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-25 21:39 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-25 22:29 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-05-26 0:28 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-26 0:35 ` david
2009-05-26 0:47 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-26 8:43 ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-26 10:56 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-05-09 11:12 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-05-07 22:37 ` trekker.dk
2009-05-08 1:17 ` Shannon McMackin
2009-05-08 21:47 ` Fabio Comolli
2009-05-10 5:38 ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-11 20:10 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2009-05-10 5:38 ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-11 21:19 ` trekker.dk
2009-05-11 21:23 ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-13 20:19 ` trekker.dk
2009-05-13 20:24 ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-13 22:07 ` trekker.dk
2009-05-11 23:23 ` Alex Goebel
2009-05-16 19:07 ` Martin Steigerwald
2009-05-17 2:53 ` Matt Price
2009-05-17 3:06 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-05-17 3:24 ` Matt Price
2009-05-17 3:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-05-17 5:02 ` Nigel Cunningham
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