Re: Suspend 2 merge: 22/51: Suspend2 lowlevel code.

[Nigel Cunningham]

Hi.

On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 08:55, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> 
> > That's roughly what we're doing now, apart from the offlining/onlining.
> > I had considered trying to take better advantage of SMP support (perhaps
> > run a decompression thread on one CPU and the writer on the other, eg),
> > so we might want to apply this just to the region immediately around the
> > atomic copy/restore. That makes me wonder, though, what the advantage is
> > to switching to using the hotplug functionality - is it x86 only, or
> > more cross platform? (If more cross platform, that might possibly be an
> > advantage over the current code).
> 
> It's cross platform and removes the requirement for patches like;
> 
> Subject: Suspend 2 merge: 13/51: Disable highmem tlb flush for copyback.

Good point. I didn't see that.

Regards,

Nigel
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