Re: [PATCH] Don't refill pcp lists during SWSUSP.

[Nigel Cunningham]

Hi Pavel.

You need to remember that this is infrastructure for later. I tried it
other ways and would have needed a number of calls to drain local pages.
Perhaps I'm taking the wrong approach, trying to feed a patch at a time
when you can't see how it all fits together. If you like, I'll send a
'whole kit and caboodle' patch as soon as I get the last bugs ironed
out. I have it suspending and resuming at the moment, but have one last
bug to iron out that's stopping me getting back from
do_suspend_lowlevel. It's just a matter of time, and then that will be
fixed. I could send you a monster patch then :> (I'll be posting it
somewhere anyway - I'll want others to test it, of course).

Regards,

Nigel

On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 20:18, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > Here's another patch (the last for a little while, I promise!). It stops
> > the pcp lists from being refilled while SWSUSP is running. Despite the
> > comment in the page, drain_local_pages does only need to get called once
> > right now, but I have patches coming that will (DV) change that. This
> > patch is thus groundwork for them.
> 
> This adds external (and pretty  ugly) dependency of swsusp on the
> outside. And as it still needs to drain_local_pages(), nothing is
> gained. I believe it is better to just call drain_local_pages few
> times. Magic hooks "if suspending, don't do this" seem like wrong
> approach to me.
> 
> 								Pavel
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