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

[Warner Losh]

> On Jan 15, 2015, at 7:27 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> 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? :)

Orthogonal to these issues, I’m improving the loader to (optionally) load any drivers
for storage-class devices it finds on the PCI / PCIe bus. I’m augmenting
/boot/$KERNEL/linker.hints with some additional data so /boot/loader knows
what to load.

Warner

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