> I rebased this and rechecked it. The *total* libguestfs boot time > goes from 86 seconds down to 7.7 seconds. The proportion of that > attributable to loading the appliance is approximately 650 times [sic] > faster.
Nack. > +/* Target address and size for DMA operations. This is only used > + * during boot and across 32 and 64 bit architectures, so only writes > + * to lower 4GB addresses are supported. > + */ > +static uint32_t dma_addr = 0; > +static uint32_t dma_size = 0; Storing per-device state in global variables is just plain wrong. Limiting addresses to 32-bits is just lame. You can do better. It's also completely broken on big-endian hosts. Paul
