On Saturday, 14 April 2007 01:03, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 00:57 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > > Well, I'm not sure. First, we don't really know what the value of it should be
> > > > > and this alone is a good enough reason for making it tunable, IMHO. Second, I
> > > > > think different systems may need different PAGES_FOR_IO and taking just the
> > > > > maximum (even if we learn how much that actually is) seems to be wasteful in
> > > >
> > > > Well, it is wasteful as in "we save slightly smaller image than we
> > > > could". That's okay with me.
> > >
> > > No. If the driver can't allocate the memory, your call to device_suspend
> > > will fail. This isn't about image size but about success or failure to
> > > hibernate.
> >
> > If we take PAGES_FOR_IO to be the maximum over all possible configurations
> > that can hibernate, the majority of systems will just create smaller images than
> > they could have created for smaller PAGES_FOR_IO, but all of them will be
> > able to hibernate. :-)
>
> You also use PAGES_FOR_IO in enough_free_mem. Say you set it to the 9000
> pages I mentioned before (35M). On a machine with 64 megabytes of
> memory, you'll never be able to suspend because you'll never satisfy
>
> free > nr_pages + PAGES_FOR_IO + meta
Well, in fact our tunable would need to be independent of PAGES_FOR_IO so that
the memory shrinker could free some spare memory for the drivers.
> I'll freely admit that 64 megabytes is tiny nowadays, but it's not
> completely unknown. The point is really that you're effectively making
> swsusp unusable for machines with RAM < (PAGES_FOR_IO * (say) 3). But
> what do you set PAGES_FOR_IO to? There'll always be someone with
> $WHIZ_BANG_CONFIG who is pushing to have the value increased, and every
> increase knocks out more of your lowend users.
Yes, that's why I said I wasn't sure whether or not the additional tunable was
needed.
Still, with the notifiers we have a chance to handle the problem automatically
and the tunable would require the user to set the right value.
Greetings,
Rafael
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