How Intel's Clear Linux Team Cut The Kernel Boot Time From 3 Seconds To 300 ms

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“Intel engineer Feng Tang spoke at this week’s Linux Plumbers Conference in Lisbon, Portugal on how the Clear Linux team managed to boot their kernel faster. They started out with around a three second kernel boot time but cut it down to just 300 ms…”

Read the full Phoronix news article here

Feng’s slide deck (PDF)

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Booting the desktop, however…

That’s alright, it’s all good! :joy:

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:blush:

Boot desktop from Ramdisk…

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Eh, splashed out for an Optane SSD 800p when I built this box last year, configured it as a disk cache… I have no idea if it accelerates bootup, tho…

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I’d like to issue a small clarification here. Technically, the person in the article is not a member of the “core” Clearlinux team.

I’m saying that not because that “makes it less important”. I’m saying that because I’d like people to understand that Intel as a whole is working on ways to improve Linux performance - and that means whether it’s with Clearlinux or without Clearlinux. So it’s actually a really, really positive development.

What Feng did is very impressive and has been asked for many years - his slides are a very good look at the methodology and tools we use.

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