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 -- Landru! Guide us! -- A Beta 3-oid, "The Return of the Archons", stardate 3157.4
