Experimental Patches Allow Much Faster AArch64 & RISC-V Kexec Kernel Reboots

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Experimental Patches Allow Much Faster AArch64 & RISC-V Kexec Kernel Reboots

For those making use of Kexec reboots for booting to a new kernel without fully bringing down the system to reduce the server downtime from POST'ing and other hardware initialization tasks, Kexec reboots may soon be much faster on 64-bit Arm and RISC-V systems...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Faster-ARM64-RISC-V-Kexec

[bug77]

Now that you mention it, did you ever benchmark for normal desktop CPUs form lowly dual-cores (if you can still find these) all the way up to Threadrippers? You'd probably need to test AMD and Intel separately, changing mobos would significantly impact the numbers.