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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 01:42:30 +0000
From: Julien Freche <jfreche@...are.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/6] mm/kdump: allow to exclude pages that are
logically offline
>On 11/14/18, 3:41 PM, "Nadav Amit" <namit@...are.com> wrote:
>>From: David Hildenbrand
>>Sent: November 14, 2018 at 11:05:38 PM GMT
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/6] mm/kdump: allow to exclude pages that are logically offline
>>
>>
>> Can you share if something like this is also desired for vmware's
>> implementation? (I tagged this as RFC to get some more feedback)
>>
>> It should in theory be as simple as adding a handful of
>> _SetPageOffline()/_ClearPageOffline() at the right spots.
>
> Thanks, I was just suspecting it is personal ;-)
>
> I would obviously prefer that your changes would be done on top of those
> that were skipped. This patch-set sounds very reasonable to me, but I prefer
> that Julien (cc’d) would also give his opinion.
I think this is desirable for VMware's implementation also. You are right,
dumping data that is not relevant is a waste :-)
I haven't heard of any panic/issue due to this but that's still a good optimization.
Nadav or I could help to test that on ESX if required.
Regards,
--
Julien Freche
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