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    SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 4/4] i40e: don't open i40iw client for kdump
    On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 15:07:01 +0800 Coiby Xu wrote:
    > i40iw consumes huge amounts of memory. For example, on a x86_64 machine,
    > i40iw consumed 1.5GB for Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection X722 for
    > for 1GbE while "craskernel=auto" only reserved 160M. With the module
    > parameter "resource_profile=2", we can reduce the memory usage of i40iw
    > to ~300M which is still too much for kdump.
    >
    > Disabling the client registration would spare us the client interface
    > operation open , i.e., i40iw_open for iwarp/uda device. Thus memory is
    > saved for kdump.
    >
    > Signed-off-by: Coiby Xu <coxu@redhat.com>

    Is i40iw or whatever the client is not itself under a CONFIG which
    kdump() kernels could be reasonably expected to disable?

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