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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86/boot: Support uncompressed kernel
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On Mon, 2017-03-27 at 15:25 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 1:47 PM, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dne 27.3.2017 v 09:58 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior napsal(a):
> > >
> > > 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?
> >
> > If the use case is launching new VM instances continuously, then
> > compressing the kernel image is about as useful as compressing
> > /bin/bash.
>
> I guess the next step would be to use CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL on x86,
> which requires an uncompressed kernel but has the additional advantage
> of sharing the read-only sections of the kernel image across virtual
> machines, resulting in better RAM and cache usage.

That is something we wanna look into :)

Chao

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