opnsense-src/release/tools/ec2.conf
Colin Percival 4d1afa14d5 Enable indirect segment I/Os by default in the Xen blkfront driver when
running on EC2.  Due to improvements in EC2, the performance penalty which
was present on some EC2 instances no longer exists, and enabling this
feature now consistently yields ~20% higher throughput with equal or lower
latency.

Reverts:	r286063
Approved by:	re (gjb)
MFC after:	2 weeks
Relnotes:	Improved disk throughput on EC2
2016-06-29 23:56:24 +00:00

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#!/bin/sh
#
# $FreeBSD$
#
# Packages to install into the image we're creating. This is a deliberately
# minimalist set, providing only the packages necessary to bootstrap further
# package installation as specified via EC2 user-data.
export VM_EXTRA_PACKAGES="ec2-scripts firstboot-freebsd-update firstboot-pkgs"
# Set to a list of third-party software to enable in rc.conf(5).
export VM_RC_LIST="ec2_configinit ec2_fetchkey ec2_ephemeralswap ec2_loghostkey firstboot_freebsd_update firstboot_pkgs"
# Build with a 1.5 GB UFS partition; the growfs rc.d script will expand
# the partition to fill the root disk after the EC2 instance is launched.
# Note that if this is set to <N>G, we will end up with an <N+1> GB disk
# image since VMSIZE is the size of the UFS partition, not the disk which
# it resides within.
export VMSIZE=1536M
# No swap space; the ec2_ephemeralswap rc.d script will allocate swap
# space on EC2 ephemeral disks. (If they exist -- the T2 low-cost instances
# and the C4 compute-optimized instances don't have ephemeral disks. But
# it would be silly to bloat the image and increase costs for every instance
# just for those two families, especially since instances ranging in size
# from 1 GB of RAM to 60 GB of RAM would need different sizes of swap space
# anyway.)
export NOSWAP=YES
vm_extra_pre_umount() {
# The firstboot_pkgs rc.d script will download the repository
# catalogue and install or update pkg when the instance first
# launches, so these files would just be replaced anyway; removing
# them from the image allows it to boot faster.
env ASSUME_ALWAYS_YES=yes pkg -c ${DESTDIR} delete -f -y pkg
rm ${DESTDIR}/var/db/pkg/repo-*.sqlite
# The size of the EC2 root disk can be configured at instance launch
# time; expand our filesystem to fill the disk.
echo 'growfs_enable="YES"' >> ${DESTDIR}/etc/rc.conf
# EC2 instances use DHCP to get their network configuration.
echo 'ifconfig_DEFAULT="SYNCDHCP"' >> ${DESTDIR}/etc/rc.conf
# Unless the system has been configured via EC2 user-data, the user
# will need to SSH in to do anything.
echo 'sshd_enable="YES"' >> ${DESTDIR}/etc/rc.conf
# The AWS CLI tools are generally useful, and small enough that they
# will download quickly; but users will often override this setting
# via EC2 user-data.
echo 'firstboot_pkgs_list="awscli"' >> ${DESTDIR}/etc/rc.conf
# The EC2 console is output-only, so while printing a backtrace can
# be useful, there's no point dropping into a debugger or waiting
# for a keypress.
echo 'debug.trace_on_panic=1' >> ${DESTDIR}/etc/sysctl.conf
echo 'debug.debugger_on_panic=0' >> ${DESTDIR}/etc/sysctl.conf
echo 'kern.panic_reboot_wait_time=0' >> ${DESTDIR}/etc/sysctl.conf
# The console is not interactive, so we might as well boot quickly.
echo 'autoboot_delay="-1"' >> ${DESTDIR}/boot/loader.conf
echo 'beastie_disable="YES"' >> ${DESTDIR}/boot/loader.conf
# EC2 has two consoles: An emulated serial port ("system log"),
# which has been present since 2006; and a VGA console ("instance
# screenshot") which was introduced in 2016.
echo 'boot_multicons="YES"' >> ${DESTDIR}/boot/loader.conf
# Some older EC2 hardware used a version of Xen with a bug in its
# emulated serial port. It is not clear if EC2 still has any such
# nodes, but apply the workaround just in case.
echo 'hw.broken_txfifo="1"' >> ${DESTDIR}/boot/loader.conf
# Some EC2 instances run on a version of Xen which has a bug relating
# to the migration of MSI-X interrupts; this is visible as SR-IOV
# networking (aka. "EC2 Enhanced Networking") not being able to pass
# packets. Disable MSI-X interrupt migration to work around this bug.
echo 'machdep.disable_msix_migration="1"' >> ${DESTDIR}/boot/loader.conf
# The first time the AMI boots, the installed "first boot" scripts
# should be allowed to run:
# * ec2_configinit (download and process EC2 user-data)
# * ec2_fetchkey (arrange for SSH using the EC2-provided public key)
# * growfs (expand the filesystem to fill the provided disk)
# * firstboot_freebsd_update (install critical updates)
# * firstboot_pkgs (install packages)
touch ${DESTDIR}/firstboot
return 0
}