Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86/boot: Support uncompressed kernel | From | Chao Peng <> | Date | Mon, 27 Mar 2017 17:25:44 +0800 |
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On Mon, 2017-03-27 at 09:58 +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > On 2017-03-24 13:35:40 [+0800], Chao Peng wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > kernel kernel size time in > > > > > decompress_kernel > > > > > compressed (gzip) 3.3M 53ms > > > > > uncompressed 14M 3ms > > > > > > Exactly, LZ4 is the fastest. It takes 16ms to complete the > > decompression. Still sounds a little longer when compared to > > uncompressed kernel. > > Are we seriously talking here about one-time improvement of 13ms > boot time?
The usage model for us is to lunch kernel in virtual machine and there will be thousands of instances lunched and shutdowned/re-lunched frequently, so every single million-second helps. And 13ms means 20% improvement to our existing optimization (the other part besides decompression is optimized to ~40ms).
Chao > > > > > Chao > > Sebastian
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