Hi, On Wednesday 09 August 2006 13:27, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > Introduce the memory bitmap data structure and make swsusp use in the suspend > > > > phase. > > > > > > > > The current swsusp's internal data structure is not very efficient from the > > > > memory usage point of view, so it seems reasonable to replace it with a data > > > > structure that will require less memory, such as a pair of bitmaps. > > > > > > Well, 500 lines of code for what... 0.25% bigger image? BTW, that depends on the total size of RAM. On a 1.5 GB i386 box that would be something like 100%. > > > I see it enables you to do some cleanups... but could we get those > > > cleanups without those 500 lines? :-). > > > > Out of the 500 lines, something like 100 are comments and other 50 are > > definitions of structures. ;-) > > Yes, and of the 100 lines of comments, 10 are fixmes :-). No, no, they are just notes. ;-) > > Seriously speaking, I could do that without the bitmaps, but the code wouldn't > > be that much shorter. Apart from this, I would need to introduce yet another > > type of PBEs (for storing pfns) and try not to get lost in the resulting mess. > > > > Instead of doing this I prefer to add some extra code to set up a decent data > > structure and just use it. > > Okay, I guess that if we need to change the structure anyway, we may > well use the effective structure... That's exactly what I thought when I was writing this code. :-) Rafael