[RFC PATCH v2 0/10] makedumpfile: cyclic processing to keep memory consumption.

[HATAYAMA Daisuke]

From: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi at mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/10] makedumpfile: cyclic processing to keep memory consumption.
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 14:54:06 +0900

> Hello Vivek,
> 
> On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 08:39:05 -0400
> Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:13:20AM +0900, Atsushi Kumagai wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> > 
>> > I improved prototype of cyclic processing as version 2.
>> > If there is no objection to basic idea, I want to consider the things
>> > related to performance as next step. (Concretely, buffer size and the patch set
>> > HATAYAMA-san sent a short time ago.) 
>> > 
>> 
>> Hi Atushi san,
>> 
>> Good to see this work making progress. I have few queries.
>> 
>> - Do you have some numbers for bigger machines like 1TB or higher memory. 
>>   I am curious to know how bad is the time penalty.
> 
> I'm afraid that I don't have such a large machine, so I need someone who can
> measure execution time in large machine.
> 

I can prepare such machine but I cannot say I can use the machine on
this day precisely for example. But I think it must be until the end
of this month at most. So, I would like to fix content of benchmark
first.

Thanks.
HATAYAMA, Daisuke