> >Sorry Eric, I'm not clear to what you mean by ``short one core''... >Which are you suggesting? Disabling BSP if crash happens on AP is >reasonable? >Or restricting cpus to a single one only just as the current kdump >configuration is reasonable? I am suggesting we start every cpu except the BSP from the AP we started on. N-1 cpus seems like a good tradeoff between performance and reliability for those who need it. Eric