Re: Suspend 2 merge: 22/51: Suspend2 lowlevel code.

[Zwane Mwaikambo]

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Nigel Cunningham wrote:

> That's roughly what we're doing now, apart from the offlining/onlining.
> I had considered trying to take better advantage of SMP support (perhaps
> run a decompression thread on one CPU and the writer on the other, eg),
> so we might want to apply this just to the region immediately around the
> atomic copy/restore. That makes me wonder, though, what the advantage is
> to switching to using the hotplug functionality - is it x86 only, or
> more cross platform? (If more cross platform, that might possibly be an
> advantage over the current code).

It's cross platform and removes the requirement for patches like;

Subject: Suspend 2 merge: 13/51: Disable highmem tlb flush for copyback.
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