On Thursday 14 May 2009, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > Since the hibernation code is now going to use allocations of memory > > to make enough room for the image, it can also use the page frames > > allocated at this stage as image page frames. The low-level > > hibernation code needs to be rearranged for this purpose, but it > > allows us to avoid freeing a great number of pages and allocating > > these same pages once again later, so it generally is worth doing. > > > > [rev. 2: Take highmem into account correctly.] > > I don't get it. What is advantage of this patch? It makes the code > more complex... Is it supposed to be faster? Yes, in some test cases it is reported to be faster (along with [4/6], actually). Besides, we'd like to get rid of shrink_all_memory() eventually and it is a step in this direction. Thanks, Rafael _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
