"compute-runtime" image contains >1/2GB of extra packages
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 55/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Tech stack
- docker
- Domain
- devops
Research direction
Start by reproducing the docker run ... dpkg package inventories for docker.io/intel/compute-runtime:latest, then inspect the repository definition that builds the compute-runtime image. Identify why the GCC, C++ standard library, dpkg, CMake, and other marked development packages enter the runtime image. Done means those unnecessary packages move out of the runtime image while the required Intel runtime packages remain and the image is substantially smaller.
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Description
Issue
compute-runtime image is too large to act as a reasonable base image for GPU workloads:
$ docker images docker.io/intel/compute-runtime:latest
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
docker.io/intel/compute-runtime latest e1210a73ef24 3 weeks ago 973 MB
Because it has a lot of things that should go to a separate devel image, instead of them being on compute (+ media) driver runtime image.
Extra content: devel packages
Devel packages on the image:
$ docker run -it --rm docker.io/intel/compute-runtime bash -c "dpkg -l '*-dev' | grep ^ii"
ii dpkg-dev 1.22.6ubuntu6.6 all Debian package development tools
ii libc6-dev:amd64 2.39-0ubuntu8.7 amd64 GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Header Files
ii libcrypt-dev:amd64 1:4.4.36-4build1 amd64 libcrypt development files
ii libgcc-13-dev:amd64 13.3.0-6ubuntu2~24.04.1 amd64 GCC support library (development files)
ii libmetee-dev:amd64 6.2.1-1~24.04~ppa1 amd64 Intel(R) ME TEE Library - headers
ii libstdc++-13-dev:amd64 13.3.0-6ubuntu2~24.04.1 amd64 GNU Standard C++ Library v3 (development files)
ii libze-dev:amd64 1.28.2-1~24.04~ppa1 amd64 oneAPI Level Zero -- development files
ii linux-libc-dev:amd64 6.8.0-124.124 amd64 Linux Kernel Headers for development
ii systemd-dev 255.4-1ubuntu8.15 all systemd development files
Of those, Intel ones are IMHO fairly OK:
libze-dev: is explicitintel-gpu-computemetapackage dep, needs to match backend version, is smallish (2MB) & does not bring in anything extralibmetee-dev: is explicitlibigsc1dep, small (1<MB) & does not bring in anything extra
But gcc, dpkg and stdc++ devel package definitely are not OK, see output of:
dpkg -s $(dpkg -l *-dev | awk '/^ii/{print $2}') | grep -e ^Package -e ^Depends -e ^Recommends -e Installed-Size.
Extra content: very large packages
Large packages for extra languages and built tools (at least ones marked with "***"):
$ docker run -it --rm docker.io/intel/compute-runtime awk '/^Package:/{name=$2} /^Installed-Size:/{print $2,name}' /var/lib/dpkg/status | sort -nr
123588 libigdfcl2
97334 libigc2
61333 gcc-13-x86-64-linux-gnu ***
57959 libze-intel-gpu1
55617 intel-opencl-icd
36493 cmake ***
35919 libicu74
33545 g++-13-x86-64-linux-gnu ***
30807 cpp-13-x86-64-linux-gnu ***
29333 libperl5.38t64 ***
21692 git ***
21662 libstdc++-13-dev ***
20418 iso-codes
19159 perl-modules-5.38 ***
18880 xpu-smi
16082 libgcc-13-dev ***
13431 libc6
13112 libc6-dev ***
11744 systemd
11549 binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu
10984 cmake-data ***
10791 libasan8
9024 libpython3.12-stdlib
8902 libtsan2
7927 python3.12-minimal
7913 perl-base ***
7507 linux-libc-dev ***
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