Re: A patch to enhance biosdisk initrd loading speed for grub2

2012-08-01 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 01.08.2012 16:04, Wang Weber wrote: > Hi, > > I am very interested in GRUB2. Recently I found that the linux initrd > loading speed (i386-pc) is quite poor compared with GRUB1. I compared > grub-1.98 with grub0.97, it is almost 7 times worse. > Please use latest version (2.00 or bzr) before

A patch to enhance biosdisk initrd loading speed for grub2

2012-08-01 Thread Wang Weber
Hi, I am very interested in GRUB2. Recently I found that the linux initrd loading speed (i386-pc) is quite poor compared with GRUB1. I compared grub-1.98 with grub0.97, it is almost 7 times worse. After checking the code of them, the reason is GRUB1 has a simple track buffer for biosdisk, every t