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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	adi@hexapodia.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: swsusp performance problems in 2.6.15-rc3-mm1
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:28:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051211232805.GC5982@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200512111316.47153.rjw@sisk.pl>

Hi!

> > >  Would that be ok if I made drop_pagecache() nonstatic and called it directly
> > >  from swsusp?
> > 
> > Sure, I'll updates the patch for that.
> 
> Thanks a lot.
>  
> > It changed a bit..  You'll need to run sys_sync() then drop_pagecache()
> > then drop_slab().
> 
> I think it won't hurt if we do this unconditionally in swsusp_shrink_memory().
> Pavel, what do you think?
> 
> The appended patch illustrates the way in which I think we can use this.
> I've tested it a little, but if someone feels like trying it, please
 >  do.

Not sure, do we really want to drop all the pagecache? We want to free
memory that is not going to be used soon after suspend, but I guess
pagecache can be quite "hot".

I'd certainly wait with this until code settles. And at least trying
if it helps or hurts...
								Pavel

-- 
Thanks, Sharp!

  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-11 23:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-05  8:19 swsusp performance problems in 2.6.15-rc3-mm1 Andy Isaacson
2005-12-05 12:17 ` Pavel Machek
2005-12-05 13:58   ` Nigel Cunningham
2005-12-05 17:29     ` Pavel Machek
2005-12-05 21:11       ` Nigel Cunningham
2005-12-05 23:34         ` Pavel Machek
2005-12-06  1:26           ` Nigel Cunningham
2005-12-06  1:52             ` Pavel Machek
2005-12-05 22:44       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-12-06  0:01         ` Pavel Machek
2005-12-05 22:28     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-12-06  1:07       ` Nigel Cunningham
2005-12-06  1:37         ` Pavel Machek
2005-12-06  1:47           ` Andy Isaacson
2005-12-06  1:56             ` IDE performance on notebooks [was Re: swsusp performance problems in 2.6.15-rc3-mm1] Pavel Machek
2005-12-06  6:23               ` Andy Isaacson
2005-12-06 11:56                 ` Pavel Machek
2005-12-06  1:57             ` swsusp performance problems in 2.6.15-rc3-mm1 Nigel Cunningham
2005-12-06  3:50             ` Mark Lord
2005-12-06 15:03               ` Mark Lord
2005-12-06  2:02           ` Nigel Cunningham
2005-12-06 12:09             ` Pavel Machek
2005-12-06  1:36       ` Nigel Cunningham
2005-12-06  2:06         ` Andy Isaacson
2005-12-06  2:21           ` Nigel Cunningham
2005-12-06 14:22             ` Pavel Machek
2005-12-07 22:05               ` Nigel Cunningham
2005-12-07 22:23                 ` Pavel Machek
2005-12-06  2:21           ` Nigel Cunningham
2005-12-06 12:18           ` Pavel Machek
2005-12-06 18:15             ` Andy Isaacson
2005-12-07  1:05               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-12-07  1:10                 ` Pavel Machek
2005-12-07 11:17                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-12-07 11:30                     ` Pavel Machek
2005-12-08 22:42                       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-12-08 22:50                         ` Pavel Machek
2005-12-05 21:18   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-12-05 23:55     ` swsusp: how much memory to free? [was Re: swsusp performance problems in 2.6.15-rc3-mm1] Pavel Machek
2005-12-07 11:53       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-12-07 11:59         ` Pavel Machek
2005-12-07 12:16           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-12-07 12:18             ` Pavel Machek
2005-12-05 23:05 ` swsusp performance problems in 2.6.15-rc3-mm1 Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-12-06  0:12   ` Andy Isaacson
2005-12-06  0:51     ` Pavel Machek
2005-12-10 22:21   ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-10 23:07     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-12-10 23:33       ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-11 12:16         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-12-11 23:28           ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2005-12-12 17:45             ` Rafael J. Wysocki

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