Re: Which is simpler? (Was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support.)

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

On Po 20-02-06 20:32:25, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Matthias Hensler wrote:
> >Hi.
> >
> >On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 01:53:33AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> >
> >>Only feature I can't do is "save whole pagecache"... and 14000 lines
> >>of code for _that_ is a bit too much. I could probably patch my kernel
> >>to dump pagecache to userspace, but I do not think it is worth the
> >>effort.
> >
> >
> >I do not think that Suspend 2 needs 14000 lines for that, the core is
> >much smaller. But besides, _not_ saving the pagecache is a really _bad_
> >idea. I expect to have my system back after resume, in the same state I
> >had left it prior to suspend. I really do not like it how it is done by
> >Windows, it is just ugly to have a slowly responding system after
> >resume, because all caches and buffers are gone.
> >
> >I can only speak for myself, but I want to work with my system from the
> >moment my desktop is back.
> 
> I Am Not A VM Hacker, but:
> 
> What's the point of saving pagecache during suspend?  This seems like a 
> total waste.  Why don't we save a list of pages in pagecache to disk,
> then, after resume, prefetch them all back in.  This will slow down 
> resume (extra seeks, minimized if we sort the list, and inability
> to compress these pages), but it will speed up suspend, and it sounds
> a lot simpler.  There's already a patch to add swap prefetching, and 
> this can't be much more complicated.

I'd actually love to see this implemented. It would be useful for
suspend-to-disk (obviously), but also for benchmarks.

> While I'm at it, here's another pie-in-the-sky idea.  If we had the 

Yes, that's quite far in the sky :-).
								Pavel
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