On Monday 06 July 2009, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi Rafael. Hi, > Sorry that I've been so slow to send anything after our recent > discussion about merging TuxOnIce. Too much on my plate, as usual. No problem, I've been quite busy recently too. > Here are a couple of patches for your consideration. The first one adds > support for combining partial pages together when writing the image > proper, and breaking them apart again when reading the image back. The > second patch builds on the first one, adding support for compressing the > data that is written in an image. > > The net effect should be a good boost in the speed of writing the image, > but a slowdown (for now) in the speed of reading the image, because we > can't decompress data that hasn't been read yet, and so currently need > to do the reads synchronously. I'm a bit under the weather at the > moment, and am going to go to bed now. I hope, though, to get another > patch or two prepared reasonably quickly, which will implement an > algorithm for doing readahead. Thanks for the patches, I'll have a look at them shortly, but I need to prepare some slides for the Linux Symposium, so please be patient. :-) Best, Rafael _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
