Re: patch: make software suspend speedup in vmware virtual machine.

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> Hello all:
> 
> With this patch 2.5.43 can resume only need ~5sec.
> without this patch 2.5.43 also can resume, but need ~240sec.
> 
> This patch also can work in normal machine. But need more test.

You probably can move __flush_tlb() out of both loops, it is there
only to aid debugging. _But_ I'd like to keep it as is. __flush_tlb()
is there to prevent heisenbugs.
								Pavel

> --------------------------------------------------
> --- arch/i386/kernel/suspend.c~old	Wed Oct 16 19:39:42 2002
> +++ arch/i386/kernel/suspend.c	Wed Oct 16 19:38:21 2002
> @@ -290,8 +290,8 @@
>  		for (loop2=0; loop2 < PAGE_SIZE; loop2++) {
>  			*(((char *)((pagedir_nosave+loop)->orig_address))+loop2) =
>  				*(((char *)((pagedir_nosave+loop)->address))+loop2);
> -			__flush_tlb();
>  		}
> +		__flush_tlb();
>  	}
>  
>  	restore_processor_context();
> 
> 
> -- 
> 		- Hu Gang



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