On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 4:35 AM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
<devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Already discussed in the 'support hibernation' thread.
Most laptops today have UEFI Secure Boot enabled by default and
therefore hibernation isn't possible. And even when the laptop doesn't
have Secure Boot enabled, there's a forest of bugs. It works for some
people and not others. It was working for me on one laptop in
February, consistently doesn't work now and I haven't gotten a reply
yet from upstream about the problem.
I am a fan of zswap too, but it needs deconfliction logic with
swap-on-zram. The generator would need to come after the
fstab-generator, so that it could know if there is a swap-on-drive
partition. From that it could do swap-on-zram if there is no
swap-on-drive. And setup zswap if there is (instead of two swap
devices). The kernel has support for 32 swap devices, since almost
forever.
I've done enough testing with zswap in all the same conditions I've
used zram, that I'm confident this can be implemented with this
feature in the F33 time frame. But someone needs to help out with the
zram-generator code to teach it how to use zswap. There is a sysfs
interface to do it so that's pretty straightforward and I think that's
how zram-generator does things now for zram, it's not yet using
zramctl for setup.
I can plan to have supplementary tests for zswap on the test day.
Hypothetically zswap is a bit smarter because of the LRU basis it uses
to decide what to toss out of the memory cache to the swap-on-drive.
Whereas two swaps where /dev/zram0 has higher priority, gets favored
until it's full, then uses /dev/swapondrive. But in my testing I
haven't been able to prove zswap is better.
Well, recent articles on LWN mention a spike in interest to hibernation¹, so I'd
expect hibernation to get improved.
And I'm not sure it's fair to rule out hibernation forever because of existing
problems on some hw setups. Windows 10 has by default a thing called "fast
startup" which is AFAIK simply hibernation. If that works for them, I guess we can
make it too?
1:
https://lwn.net/Articles/821158/