On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 04:02:14PM +0900, Atsushi Kumagai wrote: > Hello, > > I made the patch set based on v1.5.1-beta to calculate the size of cyclic > buffer automatically. > > In v1.5.0, users have to specify the buffer size depending on system memory > size with --cyclic-buffer option in order to get decent performance. > > This patch set avoids the inconvenience above by choosing the lesser value > of the two below as the size of cyclic buffer automatically: > > a. the size enough for storing the 1st/2nd bitmap for the whole of vmcore > b. 80% of free memory (as safety limit) > > Additionally, this patch set remove --cyclic-buffer option because I think > it has been already unnecessary.
I was wondering how about retaining --cyclic-buffer <size> option. If there are use cases where user's don't like default of 80% of free memory they can override this policy by specifying --cyclic-buffer. Thanks Vivek _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
