On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:04:46 +0200 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday 24 of October 2012 14:13:03 Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:06:00 +0200 > > Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> 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. > > > > hm, that sounds smart. > > > > > Would that be a valid use-case? > > > > I'd say so, unless we change the kernel to do that internally. We do > > have the hibernation-specific shrink_all_memory() in the vmscan code. > > We didn't see fit to document _why_ that exists, but IIRC it's there to > > create enough free memory for hibernation to be able to successfully > > complete, but no more. > > That's correct. Well, my point was: how about the idea of reclaiming clean pagecache (and inodes, dentries, etc) before hibernation so we read/write less disk data? Given that it's so easy to do from the hibernation script, I guess there's not much point... -- 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>