svn commit: r255323 - in head/sys: amd64/conf i386/conf

[Adrian Chadd]

On 7 September 2013 14:02, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw at zxy.spb.ru> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 10:48:48PM +0200, Edward Tomasz Napiera?a wrote:
>
> > Wiadomo?? napisana przez Adrian Chadd <adrian at 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.

Thanks guys! I'm glad someone has already done a large part of this work!



-adrian