Re: [PATCH v9 1/2] Documentation: kdump: remind user of nr_cpus

2016-08-21 Thread Zhou, Wenjian/周文剑
On 08/19/2016 11:57 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: On Fri, 19 Aug 2016 08:33:21 +0800 "Zhou, Wenjian/周文剑" <zhouwj-f...@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote: I was also confused by maxcpus and nr_cpus before writing this patch. I think it is a good choice to describe it in kernel-parameters.txt.

Re: [PATCH v9 1/2] Documentation: kdump: remind user of nr_cpus

2016-08-18 Thread Zhou, Wenjian/周文剑
Hi Jonathan, Thanks for your reply. On 08/19/2016 01:18 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 11:11:46 +0800 Zhou Wenjian <zhouwj-f...@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote: Thank you for working to improve the documentation! * We generally don' have to bring up a SMP kernel just to c

Re: [PATCH v8 1/2] Documentation: kdump: remind user of nr_cpus

2016-08-18 Thread Zhou, Wenjian/周文剑
On 08/18/2016 02:47 PM, Dave Young wrote: On 08/17/16 at 07:36pm, Joe Perches wrote: On Thu, 2016-08-18 at 10:31 +0800, Zhou Wenjian wrote: nr_cpus can help to save memory. So we should remind user of it. trivia: diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt

[PATCH v9 1/2] Documentation: kdump: remind user of nr_cpus

2016-08-17 Thread Zhou Wenjian
nr_cpus can help to save memory. So we should remind user of it. Signed-off-by: Zhou Wenjian <zhouwj-f...@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Baoquan He <b...@redhat.com> Acked-by: Xunlei Pang <xp...@redhat.com> --- Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 inserti

[PATCH v9 0/2] update the doc of kdump

2016-08-17 Thread Zhou Wenjian
;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

[PATCH v9 2/2] Documentation: kdump: add description of enable multi-cpus support

2016-08-17 Thread Zhou Wenjian
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-f...@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Baoquan He <b...@redhat.com> Acked-by: Xunlei Pang <x

[PATCH v8 1/2] Documentation: kdump: remind user of nr_cpus

2016-08-17 Thread Zhou Wenjian
nr_cpus can help to save memory. So we should remind user of it. Signed-off-by: Zhou Wenjian <zhouwj-f...@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Baoquan He <b...@redhat.com> Acked-by: Xunlei Pang <xp...@redhat.com> --- Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 inserti

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

2016-08-17 Thread Zhou Wenjian
ernel 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(

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

2016-08-17 Thread Zhou Wenjian
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-f...@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Baoquan He <b...@redhat.com> Acked-by: Xunlei Pang <x

[PATCH v7 0/2] update the doc of kdump

2016-08-17 Thread Zhou Wenjian
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): Docume

[PATCH v7 1/2] Documentation: kdump: remind user of nr_cpus

2016-08-17 Thread Zhou Wenjian
nr_cpus can help to save memory. So we should remind user of it. Signed-off-by: Zhou Wenjian <zhouwj-f...@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Baoquan He <b...@redhat.com> --- Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt | 2 +++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/D

[PATCH v7 2/2] Documentation: kdump: add description of enable multi-cpus support

2016-08-17 Thread Zhou Wenjian
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-f...@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Baoquan He <b...@redhat.com> --- Documentation/kdump/k

[PATCH v6 2/2] Documentation: kdump: add description of enable multi-cpus support

2016-08-14 Thread Zhou Wenjian
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-f...@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Baoquan He <b...@redhat.com> --- Documentation/kdump/k

[PATCH v6 0/2] update the doc of kdump

2016-08-14 Thread Zhou Wenjian
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 use