Re: pmdisk working on ppc (WAS: Help port swsusp to ppc)

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 05:10, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > Ah, also: The "Freeing memory" phase takes forever. That should
> > really be fixed.
> 
> Well, it does the trick for me, but it takes 50% or so of suspend
> time. Some memory managment guru making "freeing memory" faster would
> certainly be welcome.
> 								Pavel
> PS: But I'd like to keep it simple...

Haven't looked at it yet. Several crash reports so far, mostly
lockups right after printing the number of pages to save. I wonder
if we have something broken in there. It dies for me once too at
this point.

Also, at least on pmac laptops, the HD is usually so fast, that
I suspect spending 10 seconds freeing things is less efficient than
spending this 10 seconds writing 200Mb of data to disk :) Also, one
wakup, it's quite painful to see everything be swapped in again. It
may make sense to be less agressive on the memory freeing, though
finding a good balance isn't easy.


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