Re: [PATCH -mm] swsusp: support creating bigger images (rev. 2)

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri May 12 2006 - 06:31:00 EST


> > Too much uncertainity for 10% speedup, I'm afraid. Yes, it was really
> > clever to get this fundamental change down to few hundred lines, but
> > design complexity remains. Could we drop that patch?
>
> Could you provide justification for your claim that the speedup is
> only 10%?

10% was number Rafael provided, IIRC.

> Please also remember that you are introducing complexity in other ways, with
> that swap prefetching code and so on. Any comparison in speed should include
> the time to fault back in pages that have been discarded.

Well, swap prefetching is useful for other workloads, too; so it gets
developed/tested outside swsusp.
Pavel
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