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Date:      Sat, 7 Sep 2013 15:14:53 -0400
From:      Benjamin Kaduk <bjkfbsd@gmail.com>
To:        Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
Cc:        "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, Bryan Venteicher <bryanv@freebsd.org>, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r255323 - in head/sys: amd64/conf i386/conf
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On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 10:47:07AM -0700, Adrian Chadd 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.
>
> Some very, very old devices don't exist as modules.
> This SCSI controllers (ISA-only?). I just drop this.
>

I think you're missing the point.  Right now, loading modules from the
loader is supposed to be painfully slow, at least in many situations.
 dougb (IIRC) added the kld_list rc.conf variable so that modules could be
loaded once the machine is up, which proceeds at a much more reasonable
pace.  This seems to be what Adrian is alluding to with '"fixing" of loader
to cache metadata to make the reads faster'.

-Ben Kaduk



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