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  [PATCH v8 0/2] update the doc of kdump Zhou Wenjian <zhouwj-fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> - 2016-08-18 04:40 +0200
    [PATCH v8 2/2] Documentation: kdump: add description of enable multi-cpus support Zhou Wenjian <zhouwj-fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> - 2016-08-18 04:40 +0200

#1464900 — [PATCH v8 0/2] update the doc of kdump

v7->v8: fix "a SMP kernel" to "an SMP kernel" and replace "\" with "/"
v6->v7: fix typo
v5->v6: replace "we" with "you"
v4->v5: move change log to cover letter
v3->v4: update the description of bring up SMP dump-capture kernel
v2->v3: add description of nr_cpus.
v1->v2: change nr_cpus to maxcpus

Zhou Wenjian (2):
  Documentation: kdump: remind user of nr_cpus
  Documentation: kdump: add description of enable multi-cpus support

 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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1.8.3.1

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#1464901 — [PATCH v8 2/2] Documentation: kdump: add description of enable multi-cpus support

multi-cpu support is useful to improve the performance of kdump in
some cases. So add the description of enable multi-cpu support in
dump-capture kernel.

Signed-off-by: Zhou Wenjian <zhouwj-fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Xunlei Pang <xpang@redhat.com>
---
 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
index e8da1d5..c781d49 100644
--- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
@@ -396,6 +396,13 @@ Notes on loading the dump-capture kernel:
   Note, though maxcpus always works, you should replace it by nr_cpus to
   save memory if supported by the current ARCH, such as x86.
 
+* You should enable multi-cpu support in dump-capture kernel if you intend
+  to use multi-thread programs with it, such as parallel dump feature of
+  makedumpfile. Otherwise, the multi-thread program may have a great
+  performance degradation. To enable multi-cpu support, you should bring up an
+  SMP dump-capture kernel and specify maxcpus/nr_cpus, disable_cpu_apicid=[X]
+  options while loading it.
+
 * For s390x there are two kdump modes: If a ELF header is specified with
   the elfcorehdr= kernel parameter, it is used by the kdump kernel as it
   is done on all other architectures. If no elfcorehdr= kernel parameter is
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1.8.3.1

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