Re: [TuxOnIce-devel] [RFC] TuxOnIce

[Nigel Cunningham]

Hi.

On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 11:19 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > > If you really have drivers that have exceptionally large memory requirements
> > > (eg. you need to copy video ram), you should tell the system through struct
> > > driver and do accounting at probe and removal of devices.
> > 
> > Or perhaps the drivers should allocate memory from a PM notifier (which is
> > called before the freezing of tasks) to avoid the problem?
> 
> Yes, that's how it should work for big allocations.
> 
> For small allocations... I still believe we should free a bit of
> memory for s2ram so that small allocations can be done without
> problems.

Big vs small shouldn't matter. One simple, clear method of doing things.
Otherwise we won't get the predictability we're seeking.

Nigel

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