On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 02:18:27PM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 7 September 2013 14:02, Slawa Olhovchenkov <s...@zxy.spb.ru> wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 10:48:48PM +0200, Edward Tomasz Napiera?a wrote: > > > > > Wiadomo?? napisana przez Adrian Chadd <adr...@freebsd.org> w dniu 7 wrz > > 2013, o godz. 19:47: > > > > I'll be happy if someone does this right now, by populating a > > /boot/loader.modules or something, and then force the "fixing" of loader to > > cache metadata to make the reads faster. > > > > > > I have no idea on what's the loader(8) state right now, but long time > > ago I''ve made a patch > > > that made it significantly faster by making caching actually work. No > > idea if anyone picked > > > up the patch (http://people.freebsd.org/~trasz/fast-loader-3.diff), > > though. > > > > > > > Some time ago Andrey V. Elsukov do improvement in loader for more > > efficient caching and partition handling. Now loader load a lot of > > modules faster. I am insert hist in CC: list. > > > > Cool! > > Between Andrey and trasz@ there seems to be significant work done in this > area to make things better. > > How about we get together a single patch set against -HEAD to start testing > out? I'll test it out on my amd64/i386 devices (and if I can get these ARM > boards to work, arm as well) to see how it works? > > I think we can aim to get this stuff snuck into -HEAD after 10 branches > off. Sneaking it into -HEAD now would be way too risky. We can always MFC > it later on to hit 10.1 or something.
I think now -HEAD can't be more risky by one or two patches. > Thanks guys! I'm glad someone has already done a large part of this work! > > > > -adrian _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
