Oracle has released Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel, which it says is a fast, modern, reliable Linux kernel optimised for its software and hardware.
According to Wim Coekaerts, senior VP of Linux and Virtualisation Engineering at Oracle: “Today's hardware innovations are fast and frequent - making it very important that the Linux distributions evolve quickly to leverage the latest hardware.”
Oracle says by combining Oracle Linux with the kernel, customers gain fast access to optimisations, new enhancements, and bug fixes. This new offering is a result of Oracle Linux kernel development efforts, on top of the current mainline kernel.
Based on the combined efforts of Oracle's Linux, database, middleware, and hardware engineering teams, the company describes the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel as fast, with more than 75% performance gain demonstrated in OLTP performance tests over a Red Hat Compatible Kernel. It also features 200% speedup of Infiniband messaging and 137% faster solid state disk access.
Oracle says the kernel is also modern, providing optimisations for large NUMA servers, improved power management and energy efficiency, as well as fine-grained CPU and memory resource control.
The IT giant says it is reliable, supporting the Data Integrity Extensions and T10 Protection Information Model, to stop corrupt data from being written to storage. Its hardware fault management enables improved application uptime and it features low overhead performance counters for tracing.
The Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel is now the only Linux kernel Oracle recommends for use with Oracle software, according to Oracle.
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