On 2016/08/26 at 08:53, Dave Young wrote:
> On 08/25/16 at 06:23pm, Xunlei Pang wrote:
>> v1 -> v2:
>> For Patch 1, rename "does_dracut_args_contain_mount" to
"is_mount_in_dracut_args".
>> No functional change.
>>
>> v2 -> v3:
>> For Patch 1, remove the double quota requirement for "--mount".
>> For Patch 2, Improved description according to Dave's suggestion.
>>
>> There were some complaints about nfs kdump that users must mount
>> nfs beforehand, which may cause some overhead to nfs server.
>> For example, there're thounsands of diskless clients deployed with
>> nfs dumping, each time the client is boot up, it will trigger
>> kdump rebuilding so will mount nfs, thus resulting in thousands
>> of nfs request concurrently imposed on the same nfs server.
>>
>> In order to solve this, we introduce a new way of specifying mount
>> information via the already-existent "dracut_args" directive, this
>> is not only for nfs mount, also including other supported filesystems
>> like ext[2-4]/xfs, etc.
>>
>> This feature relys on the latest fedora dracut version:
>>
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=15307615
>>
>> The last patch is a fix found when designing this feature for nfs, so
>> attached in passing.
>>
>> Xunlei Pang (4):
>> Support special mount information via "dracut_args"
>> kexec-kdump-howto: Add doc about the special mount information via
>> "dracut_args"
>> spec: Update to add dependency on dracut version >= 044-117
>> mkdumprd: Do not add "nfs" dracut module explicitly
>>
>> dracut-kdump.sh | 4 ++++
>> dracut-module-setup.sh | 5 +++++
>> kdump-lib.sh | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>> kdumpctl | 13 ++++++++++++-
>> kexec-kdump-howto.txt | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>> kexec-tools.spec | 5 +++--
>> mkdumprd | 8 --------
>> 7 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>>
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> Looks good to me, for the series
>
> Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung(a)redhat.com>
Thanks, anyway I'd like to send out v4 with the minor optimization according to
Pratyush's suggestion.
Ok, I may missed the comment, feel free to carry the ack when you
repost.
I will merge it if there's no other comments. BTW, it has passed my test
in Fedora rawhide.
>
> Regards,
> Xunlei
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