Re: uswsusp history lesson [was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: swsusp / suspend2 reliability]

Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-07-08T18:34:07Z

On Saturday 08 July 2006 13:13, Bojan Smojver wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 12:38 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>
> > Actually, as I said above, as soon as we are _sure_ that LRU pages are not
> > touched after the memory has been snapshotted, my patch will be mergeable
> > and we'll get the ability to create bigger images without the added
> > complexity. [Apart from the fact that the whole memory image on a box with
> > more that 512 MB of RAM wouldn't make much sense, IMHO.] The _only_ thing
> > needed here is an argument which you have to provide anyway to show that
> > suspend2 does the right thing.
> >
> > As far as the support for ordinary files, swap files, etc. is concerned,
> > there's nothing to worry about. It's comming.
>
> This all sounds very encouraging. What's the rough timeframe for this?

Probably a month, but that depends on how much time I will have.

Rafael