Re: CVS commit: src/sys/dev/pci

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:57:08PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <20081114215402.GB10928%britannica.bec.de@localhost>,
> Joerg Sonnenberger  <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> >On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 09:44:45PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> >> Why not save it in ram only on and during suspend? Is there an ordering
> >> issue again because the disk might have already been suspended? Should
> >> we add a "prepare to suspend" pass to avoid all the ordering issues?
> >
> >What do we want to optimise for? Seriously, wpi is using the same
> >approach to wifi as ~every other device does. Keep the firmware in
> >memory for whenever you will need it.
> >
> >Note that this is not only resume time, but it will load the firmware
> >whenever if_init is called. If you really worry about the memory usage,
> >the static bus dma allocation should be eliminated first. That is larger
> >than the size of the firmware. But I don't think worrying about the
> >150KB image is  justified.
> 
> It is still 13% of the memory on a 2GB machine.

How did you get this 13% ??? 

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