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How much benefit would it be over stripping an existing kernel, e.g. Linux/BSD, remove all modules that you don't need, tune schedulers for one application etc?
by truncate 6y ago
How much benefit would it be over stripping an existing kernel, e.g. Linux/BSD, remove all modules that you don't need, tune schedulers for one application etc?
- toast0 6y agoHard to say, you'd really need to do both well to compare. Depending on the unikernel design though, you can significantly reduce user/kernel context switches beyond what you can with a tuned general purpose OS, potentially to the point of always sitting in ring 0. How much difference that makes, of course depends on your application and the quality of your various kernels.