Re: swsusp performance problems in 2.6.15-rc3-mm1

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Sunday, 11 December 2005 00:33, Andrew Morton wrote:
> "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> >
> >  Would that be ok if I made drop_pagecache() nonstatic and called it directly
> >  from swsusp?
> 
> Sure, I'll updates the patch for that.

Thanks a lot.
 
> It changed a bit..  You'll need to run sys_sync() then drop_pagecache()
> then drop_slab().

I think it won't hurt if we do this unconditionally in swsusp_shrink_memory().
Pavel, what do you think?

The appended patch illustrates the way in which I think we can use this.
I've tested it a little, but if someone feels like trying it, please do.

Greetings,
Rafael


 kernel/power/swsusp.c |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6.15-rc5-mm1/kernel/power/swsusp.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.15-rc5-mm1.orig/kernel/power/swsusp.c	2005-12-10 23:51:00.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.15-rc5-mm1/kernel/power/swsusp.c	2005-12-11 12:45:57.000000000 +0100
@@ -641,6 +641,9 @@ int swsusp_shrink_memory(void)
 	char *p = "-\\|/";
 
 	printk("Shrinking memory...  ");
+	sys_sync();
+	drop_pagecache();
+	drop_slab();
 	do {
 		size = 2 * count_highmem_pages();
 		size += size / 50 + count_data_pages();