Re: [PATCH][RFC] swsusp: speed up image restoring on x86-64

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sat Jan 22 2005 - 06:32:02 EST


Hi!

> > + * TLB flush is purely and debugging attempt to make it fail fast if we
> > + * do something wrong. TLB is properly flushed in swsusp_restore.
>
> Did you measure it doesn't noticeable slow down suspend? CR3 reload is quite
> expensive, and doing it for each page is quite often.

It slows it down horribly on vmware (like adding 2 minutes). On normal
hardware, copying pages does not take long enough for me to notice.

> Also if you want to really flush everything you should do a global
> flush.

That cr3 reload can probably be just removed, because swsusp is now
stable...
Pavel
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