[PATCH v2] tsc: Change default tsc calibration method to pmtimer on EFI systems

2017-09-15 Thread David E. Box
On efi systems, make pmtimer based tsc calibration the default over the pit. This prevents Grub from hanging on Intel SoC systems that power gate the pit. Signed-off-by: David E. Box --- ChangeLog: v2: Make pmtimer the default. Keep the rest in the original order. v1: Make efi timer the default

Re: [PATCH] tsc: Change default tsc calibration method to EFI on EFI systems

2017-09-15 Thread David E. Box
On Tue, 2017-09-12 at 23:46 +, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 6, 2017, 22:21 David E. Box > wrote: > > On efi systems, make efi based tsc calibration the default, > > followed by > > the pmtimer before using the pit. This prevents Grub boot failure > > on > > newer x8

grub2 is http protocol known to be slow?

2017-09-15 Thread Peter Volkov
Hi! We've tried to use network boot loading kernel and initramfs with http but we found this to be terribly slow. Our ~400Mb initramfs was loaded more then hour on 10Gbit/s network! Googling around best I found was this redhat notice: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1262653 (Installing RHEL 7

Re: ZFS boot environment patch

2017-09-15 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 12:57:39AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 09:22:01PM +0200, Paul Lagerweij wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Sep 2017 at 09:17:42PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > > On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 11:02:48AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > > > > @@ -62,9 +63,15 @

help needed with zfs zol large_dnode feature

2017-09-15 Thread Toomas Soome
hi! Since I do not have grub build setup/linux, I’m looking for help to verify the patch build and testing for zol large_dnode feature support. The patch is attached. thanks, toomas 0001-grub-zfs-reader-should-support-large_dnode.patch Description: Binary data ___

Re: ZFS boot environment patch

2017-09-15 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017, 01:58 Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 09:22:01PM +0200, Paul Lagerweij wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Sep 2017 at 09:17:42PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > > On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 11:02:48AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk > wrote: > > > > > @@ -62,9 +63,15 @@ case x"$

Re: ZFS boot environment patch

2017-09-15 Thread Paul Lagerweij
On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 at 00:57:39AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > A reasonable solution to this kind of thing is to set > PATH="$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin" to ensure that utilities there are > available. I edited the patch and tested it. Now everywhere where I use the zpool or zfs commands I temporarily e