On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 20:12, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Throw out the pages we can evict
>
> ...DMA from disk may be still running here...
Only if a request is still active and therfore the queue is not quiesced
> ...and at resume you find out that your memory is not consistent
> because DMA was still running when you were doing copy.
I can see how that can be a problem for some other things but not block
devices.
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