Re: swsusp: 8-order allocation failure on demand (update)

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sat Oct 16 2004 - 15:43:03 EST


Hi!

> > Unfortunately that's rather ugly. You'd ~32 bytes per 4K page, that's
> > almost 1% overhead, not nice. Better solution (but more work) is to
> > switch to link-lists or integrate swsusp2.
>
> Well, I wonder if the page allocation failures are a swsusp problem,
> really.

Yes, they are. Kernel memory allocation is not design to do 8-order
allocations properly. swsusp really should not use them.
Pavel
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