linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] suspend: delete sys

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Date:	Mon, 6 Jul 2015 13:11:05 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Linux PM list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] suspend: delete sys_sync()

Hi!

> > Moreover, question is if we really need to carry out the sync on *every*
> > suspend even if it is not pointless overall.  That shouldn't really be
> > necessary if we suspend and resume often enough or if we resume only for
> > a while and then suspend again.  Maybe it should be rate limited somehow
> > at least?
> 
> If you suspend and resume frequently, then the cost of the sync
> shoul dbe negliable because the amount of data dirtied between
> resume/suspend shoul dbe negliable. hence my questions about where
> sync is spending too much time, and whether we've actually fixed
> those problems or not. If sync speed on clean filesystems is a
> problem then we need to fix sync, not work around it.

And yes, that's solution I'd really prefer over adding knobs to
suspend.
									Pavel
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