Hi. On 27/05/10 07:21, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Wednesday 26 May 2010, Nigel Cunningham wrote: >> Hi all. >> >> In current in-kernel hibernation code, swap is allocated as the image is >> being written. >> >> The first four patches in this series rework things so that all swap >> that will be used is allocated prior to any data being written to disk. >> The fourth patch might look like too much for one patch, but it's >> necessary to not break bisecting. >> >> The fifth patch fixes a minor error in displaying the speed at which I/O >> occurred. >> >> This is the beginning of what I hope will be a long series of sets of >> patches, first working towards adding support for properly asynchronous >> I/O (not batching, as is currently done), then compression, multiple >> swap devices and more. In short, this is the beginning of work on >> merging TuxOnIce functionality a bit at a time. >> >> The work is coming now because I recently finished my previous job, so >> I'm seeking to get some of those jobs I've been wanting to do for a long >> time out of the way. If anyone wants to employ me to do this work, I >> wouldn't say no! :) >> >> Please excuse me if there are wrapping issues with the patches - I'm >> using Thunderbird, and haven't sent a patch series for quite a while, so >> don't remember the fancy git mailer way (will have to look it up). >> >> Rafael, these and future patches will be available at: >> >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nigelc/tuxonice-head.git#for-rafael > > Thanks for the patches, I'll have a look at them as soon as I can. Thank you! I've got other stuff to work on today, but hope to prepare another set of patches tomorrow. > I haven't replied to your hibernation algorithm idea, mostly because I didn't > have the time to look into it more thoroughly and I don't remember all of the > details. I'm still going to reply to it, though. Thanks. Nigel _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
