On 10/24/2012 02:06 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 01:48:36PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >> Well who knows. Could be that people's vm *does* suck. Or they have >> some particularly peculiar worklosd or requirement[*]. Or their VM >> *used* to suck, and the drop_caches is not really needed any more but >> it's there in vendor-provided code and they can't practically prevent >> it. > > I have drop_caches in my suspend-to-disk script so that the hibernation > image is kept at minimum and suspend times are as small as possible. > > Would that be a valid use-case? Sounds fairly valid to me. But, it's also one that would not be harmed or disrupted in any way because of a single additional printk() during each suspend-to-disk operation. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>