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@@ -396,6 +396,13 @@ Notes on loading the dump-capture kernel:
Note, though maxcpus always works, you had better replace it with
nr_cpus to save memory if supported by the current ARCH, such as x86.
+* You should enable multi-cpu support in dump-capture kernel if you intend
+ to use multi-thread programs with it, such as parallel dump feature of
+ makedumpfile. Otherwise, the multi-thread program may have a great
+ performance degradation. To enable multi-cpu support, you should bring up an
+ SMP dump-capture kernel and specify maxcpus/nr_cpus, disable_cpu_apicid=[X]
+ options while loading it.
+
* For s390x there are two kdump modes: If a ELF header is specified with
the elfcorehdr= kernel parameter, it is used by the kdump kernel as it
is done on all other architectures. If no elfcorehdr= kernel parameter is