Re: is_head_of_free_region slowing down swsusp

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu Aug 12 2004 - 18:31:40 EST


Hi!

> > is_head_of_free_region with count_and_copy_zone results results in
> > pretty nasty O(number_of_free_regions^2) behaviour, and some users see
> > cpu spending 40 seconds there :-(.
> >
> > Actually count_and_copy_zone would probably be happy with
> > "is_free_page()".
>
> Take a look at my implementation. I do a one-time pass through the slow
> path, building a bitmap of free pages. is_head_of_free_region is then
> simply a O(1) loop through the bitmap.

I've seen that solution (thanks)... I'd like to do something simpler.

Pavel
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