Re: [PATCH][3/3] mm: swsusp post resume aggressive swap prefetch

[kernel@kolivas.org]

Quoting "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>:

> Hi,
> 
> On Sunday 19 March 2006 16:34, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > 
> > Swsusp reclaims a lot of memory during the suspend cycle and can benefit
> > from the aggressive_swap_prefetch mode immediately upon resuming.
> 
> It slows down the resume on my box way too much.  Last time it took 10x more
> time than actually reading the image.
> 
> I think the problem is for the userland suspend (which I use) it's done too
> early,
> when the image pages are still in the swap, so they are taken into
> consideration
> by the aggressive prefetch.  If that really is the case, the solution would
> be to
> trigger the aggressive prefetch from the userland, if needed, after the
> image
> pages have been released.

I assume this is unique to the userland resume as the in-kernel resume is not
slowed down? If so, is there a way to differentiate the two so we only
aggressively prefetch on kernel resume - is that what you meant by doing it in
the other file?

Cheers,
Con

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