[PATCH makedumpfile v2 0/4] LZO Compression Support

[Atsushi Kumagai]

Hello Hatayama-san,

On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:33:54 +0900
HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama at jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> The following series implements LZO compression support to
> makedumpfile. LZO is as good as in size but by far better in speed
> than ZLIB, readucing down time during generation of crash dump and
> refiltering.
> 
> The RFC discussion was made here:
> 
>   http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2011-November/005783.html
>   http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2011-December/005868.html
> 
> How to build:
> 
>   1. Get lzo libraries: lzo, lzo-devel and lzo-minilzo from either of
>   the following:
> 
>     1) Original author's website:
>        http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/
> 
>     2) yum framework on fedora. Older releases don't have the packages.
> 
>   2. Apply the patch set to makedumpfile v1.4.2.
> 
>   3. Do make as follows:
> 
>     $ make USELZO=on
> 
>     Note: In default, no LZO compression support is included.
> 
> How to use:
> 
>   Introduce new -l option. If a user specify this, makedumpfile
>   generates dumpfile compressed by pages with lzo compression.
> 
>   Example)
>   $ makedumpfile -l vmcore dumpfile
> 
> Performance evaluation:
> 
>   - Kumagai-san's evaluation simulating working servers:
>     http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2011-December/005868.html
> 
>   - My evaluation focusing on the worst cases:
>     http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2011-November/005783.html
> 
> LZO Support for crash:
> 
>   I'll post LZO support patch for crash after makedumpfile merges
>   these patches.
> 
> Changelog:
> 
>   v1 => v2:
> 
>     - Add build condition for LZO support. Enable LZO support if
>       specifying USELZO=on to make command.
> 
>     - Avoid LONG_MAX/ULONG_MAX redefinitions.

Thank you for your work.
I will review your patches for v1.4.4.

Thanks
Atsushi Kumagai