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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] swsusp: move snapshot-handling functions to snapshot.c
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 22:08:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051102210843.GF23943@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200511020053.25123.rjw@sisk.pl>

Hi!

> > > That depends on how you implement the interface.  If you insist on using
> > > ioctls then yes, it's ugly.  However, if it is a file in sysfs, for example,
> > > then you have well-defined open(), close(), read() and write() operations
> > > and it is assumed you will keep some context accross eg. write()s.
> > 
> > I was trying to keep kernel code simple. Yes, if we do it sysfs based,
> > that's probably not a problem. I'm not sure if nice sysfs interface
> > can be done without excessive ammount of code.
> 
> I'm not sure either, but I'm going to try.

Ok, I'm looking forward. We still have my ugly ioctls as a fallback :-).

> Still first I'd like to make swsusp free only as much memory as needed
> and not as much as possible which should improve its performance
> quite a bit.

Yes, I'd like that patch in. It will make many people happy.
								Pavel
-- 
Thanks, Sharp!

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-02 21:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-30 15:37 [PATCH 0/3] swsusp: code separation continued Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-10-30 15:40 ` [PATCH 1/3] swsusp: rework swsusp_suspend Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-10-30 17:54   ` Ingo Oeser
2005-10-30 21:18     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-10-30 15:44 ` [PATCH 2/3] swsusp: move snapshot-handling functions to snapshot.c Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-10-30 19:52   ` Pavel Machek
2005-10-30 21:16     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-10-30 21:28       ` Pavel Machek
2005-10-30 22:37         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-10-30 23:04           ` Pavel Machek
2005-10-31  0:35             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-10-31 21:59               ` Pavel Machek
2005-11-01 18:29                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-11-01 21:04                   ` Pavel Machek
2005-11-01 23:53                     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-11-02 21:08                       ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2005-10-31 19:36     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-10-31 22:02       ` Pavel Machek
2005-11-01 12:57         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-11-01 17:33           ` [PATCH 1/2] swsusp: reduce code duplication (was: Re: [PATCH 2/3] swsusp: move snapshot-handling functions to snapshot.c) Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-11-01 17:37             ` [PATCH 2/2] swsusp: simplify pagedir relocation Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-11-01 21:11               ` Pavel Machek
2005-11-01 23:15                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-11-01 21:09             ` [PATCH 1/2] swsusp: reduce code duplication (was: Re: [PATCH 2/3] swsusp: move snapshot-handling functions to snapshot.c) Pavel Machek
2005-10-30 15:48 ` [PATCH 3/3] swsusp: move swap check out of swsusp_suspend Rafael J. Wysocki

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