Re: FYI: my current bigdiff

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

Hi!

> Pavel> Hi!  This is my bigdiff. It is not for inclusion (I'll have to
> Pavel> split it), but it contains some usefull code (I believe :-).
> 
> Pavel> Oh, it speeds up swsusp quite a lot.
> 
> Indeed it does. 
> 
> After 42 days of uptime with 2.6.8-rc2-mm1 I decided to upgrade. 
> swsusp was very stable, but was getting slower and slower. Eariler
> tonight I suspended and it took about 15min to finish suspending. 
> 
> So, I built a new 2.6.9-rc1-mm4 + this bigdiff for swsusp. 
...
> After that first suspend/resume:
> 
> Sep  9 21:35:28 voldemort kernel: Stopping tasks: ====================================|
> Sep  9 21:35:28 voldemort kernel: Freeing memory...  ^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H
> \^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-
> ^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^
> H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^Hdone (44436 pages freed)
> 
> (BTW, that looks pretty nasty in the logs, even though it's very nice
> to watch)

Hmm, not sure how to solve this. It does not look *that* bad in the
logs, I believe.

> Sep  9 21:36:13 voldemort kernel: eth1: mgt_commit: failure
> Sep  9 21:36:13 voldemort kernel: eth1: interface reset complete
> 
> Seems the usb and prism54 didn't play nice. 
> 
> After booting with the pci=routeirq as suggested wireless and usb
> played nice on suspend resume again. 

Good.

> I am copying this to the email address that is mentioned. 
> 
> So, after that glitch:
> 
> - - The display is much nicer. Congrats. 
> 
> - - Speed does seem to be nicer. It's taking me 40 seconds to do a
> complete suspend/resume cycle. 
> 
> - - Should PREEMPT and/or HIMEM work with this version? I can test them
> if support has been added/fixed/tweaked for them. 

Both should work.

> I have only done a few cycles, but it looks nice and stable. I would
> suggest you break it into smaller patches and get it applied. 
> Being applied to the main tree would be nice. 

I'm working on that, believe me.
								Pavel