Re: Possibilities for a special Azure or cloud Linux package
Hi
I forgot to add the cloud team early to this mail.
On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 01:48:53AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-11-17 at 16:07 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > Hi kernel team
> >
> > We at credativ are responsible for maintaining the Azure cloud images.
> > We got asked by Microsoft to explore the possibilities of introducing a
> > specialised Linux image for this plattform into Debian. The main
> > enhancements we look at would be:
> > - faster boot of the instance,
> > - smaller memory footprint of the running kernel, and
> > - new features.
>
> However, if it is possible to create a single flavour that provides
> those sorts of enhancements for multiple cloud platforms, I think that
> would be worthwhile.
I have some initial findings for a kernel using a derived config. I
reduced the boot time by 5 seconds (from 30 to 25). The installed size
was reduced from 190 to 50MB.
Microsoft published a patch set against 4.13 and 4.14
https://github.com/Microsoft/azure-linux-kernel
they would like to add.
Now the question is if other cloud providers would like to follow such a
path by using and careing for a specialised linux image for this
platforms?
Bastian
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