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

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > Notice that swsusp needs half of physical memory free by design. That
> > means that we need _some_ freeing. Nigel's swsusp2 works around that
> > at cost of more complicated implementation.
> 
> Yes, my method is a bit more complicated.
> 
> Yours doesn't always need some freeing though - you only need to free
> memory until that 1/2 limitation is met. Last time I looked at it, it
> freed memory until it could free no more. Is that still true?

Yes. [It could be changed, but at that point I'd have to figure out
how much memory I really do need for write buffers, bio allocation,
etc.]

								Pavel
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