Adding some folks who may be interested in this thing too...

On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 12:30:30AM +1000, Daniel Axtens wrote:
> We have multiple reports of things being slower with a 1MB initial static
> allocation, and a report (more difficult to nail down) of a boot failure
> as a result of the smaller initial allocation.
>
> Make the initial memory allocation 32MB.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <d...@axtens.net>

Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com>

However, I think we should consider [1] patch set too. I will be
looking at it in the following days.

Daniel

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2022-09/msg00080.html

> ---
>  grub-core/kern/efi/mm.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/grub-core/kern/efi/mm.c b/grub-core/kern/efi/mm.c
> index d290c9a76270..3705b8b1b465 100644
> --- a/grub-core/kern/efi/mm.c
> +++ b/grub-core/kern/efi/mm.c
> @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
>  #define MEMORY_MAP_SIZE      0x3000
>
>  /* The default heap size for GRUB itself in bytes.  */
> -#define DEFAULT_HEAP_SIZE    0x100000
> +#define DEFAULT_HEAP_SIZE    0x2000000
>
>  static void *finish_mmap_buf = 0;
>  static grub_efi_uintn_t finish_mmap_size = 0;

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