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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ncunningham@linuxmail.org,
	pascal.schmidt@email.de, Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de>
Subject: Re: swsusp: 8-order allocation failure on demand (update)
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 22:40:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041016204027.GA24434@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200410162131.19761.rjw@sisk.pl>

Hi!

> > Unfortunately that's rather ugly. You'd ~32 bytes per 4K page, that's
> > almost 1% overhead, not nice. Better solution (but more work) is to
> > switch to link-lists or integrate swsusp2.
> 
> Well, I wonder if the page allocation failures are a swsusp problem,
> really.  

Yes, they are. Kernel memory allocation is not design to do 8-order
allocations properly. swsusp really should not use them.
								Pavel
-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-16 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2004-09-25  1:05       ` 2.6.9-rc2-mm1 swsusp bug report Pascal Schmidt
2004-09-25 10:16         ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-10 18:17           ` Jan Rychter
2004-10-11 13:32             ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-11 14:53               ` Jan Rychter
2004-10-17 19:10                 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-17 21:40                   ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-10-11  9:56           ` Stefan Seyfried
2004-10-11 14:59             ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-11 17:18               ` Stefan Seyfried
2004-10-11 19:58                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-10-12  8:55                   ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-13 17:29                     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-10-14 21:47                       ` swsusp: 8-order allocation failure on demand (was: Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm1 swsusp bug report.) Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-10-14 21:54                         ` swsusp: 8-order allocation failure on demand (update) Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-10-16 16:43                           ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-16 19:31                             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-10-16 20:40                               ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2004-10-16 21:05                                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-10-16 21:25                                   ` Pavel Machek

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