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

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Mon Feb 20 2006 - 05:54:21 EST


On Po 20-02-06 10:47:28, Matthias Hensler wrote:
> 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.

That's okay, swsusp already saves configurable ammount of pagecache.

Pavel
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