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From: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
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To: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Cc: kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp, kexec@lists.infradead.org

(2013/05/16 3:43), Cliff Wickman wrote:
> From: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
>
> Make non-cyclic the default, as it is faster.
>

Default behaviour should not be changed so easily, and I think 
performance of cyclic mode can be improved to some amount because 
cyclic-mode shows slow result even if the number of cycles is 1...

> Dumping a 1TB memory is successful with a crashkernel=512M.
> And allow -Y on the command line, as well as --non-cylic.

Is the '-Y' definitely necessary? I'm thinking this is hideded 
intentionally.

-- 
Thanks.
HATAYAMA, Daisuke


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