Speeding up the loader(8).

[Olivier Smedts]

2012/1/23 Edward Tomasz Napierała <trasz at freebsd.org>:
> Some time ago I've spent some time on trying to speed up loading
> modules by the loader(8).  Result can be found at:
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~trasz/fast-loader-3.diff

I use it successfully on my FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE amd64 with ZFS on root.
It sped up the loading time significantly, now booting on ZFS feels
nearly as speedy as on UFS.

> In my tests under VMWare Fusion, this cut the modules loading time
> by half.  I don't intend to commit the patch as-is - the first part
> looks dangerous (the splitting was probably done for a reason),
> the second is hackish, and the third doesn't improve anything by itself.
> I'm working on something else at a moment; feel free to pick this up.

Thanks

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