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ByteDance makes Linux kernel reboots faster

ByteDance makes Linux kernel reboots faster

FromThe Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser


ByteDance makes Linux kernel reboots faster

FromThe Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

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Length:
11 minutes
Released:
Jul 26, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

ByteDance, the company behind TikTok is proposing few patches to the linux kernel to make kernel reboots via kexec go from 500ms down to 15 ms saving huge time in updating kernel on thousands of machines. Let us discuss this
0:00 Intro
1:30 Linux Kernel Reboot Options
2:30 how kexec works
4:00 The optimization
5:00 Going through the patch
6:00 Updating Servers at TikTok scale
9:00 Summary
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bytedance-Faster-Kexec-Reboot
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220725083904.56552-1-huangjie.albert@bytedance.com/
Released:
Jul 26, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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Welcome to the Backend Engineering Show podcast with your host Hussein Nasser. If you like software engineering you’ve come to the right place. I discuss all sorts of software engineering technologies and news with specific focus on the backend. All opinions are my own. Most of my content in the podcast is an audio version of videos I post on my youtube channel here http://www.youtube.com/c/HusseinNasser-software-engineering Buy me a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hnasr ?‍? Courses I Teach https://husseinnasser.com/courses