Re: FYI: my current bigdiff

[Kevin Fenzi <kevin-linux-kernel@scrye.com>]

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>>>>> "Pavel" == Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> writes:

>> 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)

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

Yeah, a minor issue. 

>> - - 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.

Pavel> Both should work.

ok. I have built a 2.6.9-rc1-mm4+bigdiff with preempt and himem
enabled, and everything looks working so far. :) 

>> 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.

Pavel> I'm working on that, believe me.  Pavel 

kevin
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