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

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 01:02:44AM +0400, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 10:48:48PM +0200, Edward Tomasz Napiera?a wrote:
> > > 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.

It's kind of funny we seem to have similar discussion happening right now
again -- sixteen months later.

Edward, Andrey, since you two seem to have some working code already, maybe
you can work together to push out something that can be committed? :)

./danfe