Re: swsusp: 8-order allocation failure on demand (update)

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Saturday 16 of October 2004 22:40, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > > Unfortunately that's rather ugly. You'd ~32 bytes per 4K page, that's
> > > almost 1% overhead, not nice. Better solution (but more work) is to
> > > switch to link-lists or integrate swsusp2.
> > 
> > Well, I wonder if the page allocation failures are a swsusp problem,
> > really.  
> 
> Yes, they are. Kernel memory allocation is not design to do 8-order
> allocations properly. swsusp really should not use them.

Now that's clear, thanks.  Could you tell me, please, what I need to know to 
understand the swsusp code and what I should start with?

Greets,
RJW

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