linux-kernel - Re: [Patch 0/7] Implement crashkernel=auto

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Date:	Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:04:17 +0800
From:	Amerigo Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
CC:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	tony.luck@...el.com, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@...mvista.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Bernhard Walle <bwalle@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [Patch 0/7] Implement crashkernel=auto

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Hmm.  I half take it back.  How is crashkernel=auto and then shrinking
> the reserved size better than the extended syntax Bernhard Walle
> introduced nearly two years ago?
>   

You mean something like crashkernel=512M-2G:64M,2G-:128M?
Isn't it longer and more complex than "crashkernel=auto" for an end user?

Hmm, this makes me to think that "crashkernel=auto" can be a replacement 
for that extended syntax...

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