Re: swsusp performance problems in 2.6.15-rc3-mm1

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Saturday, 10 December 2005 23:21, Andrew Morton wrote:
> "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Till now, we have used the simplistic approach
> > based on freeing as much memory as possible before suspend.  Now, we
> > are freeing only as much memory as necessary, which is on the other
> > end of the scale, so to speak.
> 
> You might want to play with
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.15-rc5/2.6.15-rc5-mm1/broken-out/drop-pagecache.patch.
>  That's a fast-and-easy way of freeing up quite a lot of memory.

Thanks a lot for this hint. :-)

Would that be ok if I made drop_pagecache() nonstatic and called it directly
from swsusp?
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