Re: Hot/cold allocation -- swsusp can not handle hot pages

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> > ...
> > "big-picture" should be in Documentation/swsusp.txt...
> > 
> > *Should* be :-(. I need to copy all used memory, to make sure my
> > snapshot is atomic.
> > 
> > Copying works by looking at what is allocated, counting needed pages,
> > allocating 'directory' for them, allocating memory for copies, and
> > actually copying.
> 
> Ah.  I see.
>  
> > When I suddenly find I have less data to copy than I thought, it
> > screws up the code.
> 
> Having a less-than-expected amount to copy sounds like it can
> be safely handled?


It means I have to kill some sanity checks and complicate things a
little bit. Yes it can be done.


> > > I'm not really sure what to suggest here.  Emptying the per-cpu
> > > page pools would be tricky.  Maybe a swsusp-special page allocator
> > > which goes direct to the buddy lists or something.
> > 
> > Well, see the patch above. That seems to do the trick for
> > me. It seems that even "cold" allocation can give page from per-cpu
> > pool. I thought that was a bug?
> 
> There are two queues per cpu.  cache-warm pages and cache-cold
> pages.  The cold queue is mainly for lock amortisation, to avoid
> taking the zone lock once per page.  But we can also allocate
> from the cold queue for situations where we'll be invalidating the
> cache anyway (file readahead).  We don't want to waste cache-hot
> pages.  Your change breaks that.

I thought I was making it go to "cold" pages when user requested it,
not to hot ones, but I did not read the code too much.

							Pavel

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