Re: [PATCH 0/5] Preallocate swap + minor fix.

[Nigel Cunningham]

Hi.

On 27/05/10 07:21, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 May 2010, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > In current in-kernel hibernation code, swap is allocated as the image is
> > being written.
> >
> > The first four patches in this series rework things so that all swap
> > that will be used is allocated prior to any data being written to disk.
> > The fourth patch might look like too much for one patch, but it's
> > necessary to not break bisecting.
> >
> > The fifth patch fixes a minor error in displaying the speed at which I/O
> > occurred.
> >
> > This is the beginning of what I hope will be a long series of sets of
> > patches, first working towards adding support for properly asynchronous
> > I/O (not batching, as is currently done), then compression, multiple
> > swap devices and more. In short, this is the beginning of work on
> > merging TuxOnIce functionality a bit at a time.
> >
> > The work is coming now because I recently finished my previous job, so
> > I'm seeking to get some of those jobs I've been wanting to do for a long
> > time out of the way. If anyone wants to employ me to do this work, I
> > wouldn't say no! :)
> >
> > Please excuse me if there are wrapping issues with the patches - I'm
> > using Thunderbird, and haven't sent a patch series for quite a while, so
> > don't remember the fancy git mailer way (will have to look it up).
> >
> > Rafael, these and future patches will be available at:
> >
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nigelc/tuxonice-head.git#for-rafael
>
> Thanks for the patches, I'll have a look at them as soon as I can.

Thank you! I've got other stuff to work on today, but hope to prepare 
another set of patches tomorrow.

> I haven't replied to your hibernation algorithm idea, mostly because I didn't
> have the time to look into it more thoroughly and I don't remember all of the
> details.  I'm still going to reply to it, though.

Thanks.

Nigel
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