From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933231AbXDZHmf (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:42:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933297AbXDZHmf (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:42:35 -0400 Received: from nigel.suspend2.net ([203.171.70.205]:58196 "EHLO nigel.suspend2.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933231AbXDZHmd (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:42:33 -0400 Subject: Re: Back to the future. From: Nigel Cunningham Reply-To: nigel@nigel.suspend2.net To: Pekka Enberg Cc: Linus Torvalds , LKML In-Reply-To: <84144f020704260028q190fc90fs8f9ea703e42e7910@mail.gmail.com> References: <1177567481.5025.211.camel@nigel.suspend2.net> <84144f020704260028q190fc90fs8f9ea703e42e7910@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-/zRJ8btGWeTGwd22O8Ea" Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:42:28 +1000 Message-Id: <1177573348.5025.224.camel@nigel.suspend2.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-/zRJ8btGWeTGwd22O8Ea Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi. On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 10:28 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On 4/26/07, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > 3) Someone else steps up to the plate and tries to merge Suspend2 one > > bit at a time. >=20 > So which bits do we want to merge? For example, Suspend2 > kernel/power/ui.c, kernel/power/compression.c, and > kernel/power/encryption.c seem pointless now that we have uswsusp. > Furthermore, being the shameless Linus cheerleader that I am, I got > the impression that we should fix the snapshot/shutdown logic in the > kernel which Suspend2 doesn't really address? I agree that the driver logic could be addressed too, but to answer your question... * Doing things in the right order? (Prepare the image, then do the atomic copy, then save). * Mulithreaded I/O (might as well use multiple cores to compress the image, now that we're hotplugging later). * Support for > 1 swap device. * Support for ordinary files. * Full image option. * Modular design? Regards, Nigel --=-/zRJ8btGWeTGwd22O8Ea Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGMFfkN0y+n1M3mo0RAs1RAKCuBfOpmnHckPmN7LOxx88FA0ipswCg92Ap dZTCsR36FXdYr63Zh/x/H2A= =/x8G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-/zRJ8btGWeTGwd22O8Ea--