linux-kernel - Re: [TuxOnIce-devel] [RFC] TuxOnIce

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Date:	Fri, 08 May 2009 06:41:00 +1000
From:	Nigel Cunningham <nigel@...onice.net>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	Fabio Comolli <fabio.comolli@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	tuxonice-devel@...ts.tuxonice.net
Subject: Re: [TuxOnIce-devel] [RFC] TuxOnIce

Hi.

On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 21:27 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> In fact I agree, but there's a catch.  The way in which TuxOnIce operates LRU
> pages is based on some assumptions that may or may not be satisfied in future,
> so if we decide to merge it, then we'll have to make sure these assumptions
> will be satisfied.  That in turn is going to require quite some discussion I
> guess.

Agreed. That's why I've got that GEMS patch - it's putting pages on the
LRU that don't satisfy the former assumptions: they are used during
hibernating and need to be atomically copied. If there are further
developments in that area, I would hope we could just extend what's been
done with GEMS.

Regards,

Nigel

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