[PATCH] makedumpfile: Use file offset in initialize_mmap()

Michael Holzheu holzheu at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Mar 6 01:11:12 PST 2015


On Thu, 5 Mar 2015 22:30:05 +0100
Petr Tesarik <ptesarik at suse.cz> wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 13:44:18 +0100
> Michael Holzheu <holzheu at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 

[snip]

> > What do you think?
> 
> I'm not sure. Clearly, we should get rid of the temporary buffer. OTOH
> this slow-down should be observed on all architectures, not just s390.
> 
> Now, mmap should have been implemented in the cache code, not above it.
> Since I wrote the cache, this task is probably up to me.

Sounds good, thanks!
Michael




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