From owner-svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 7 21:27:53 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAEE5CF7; Sat, 7 Sep 2013 21:27:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from slw@zxy.spb.ru) Received: from zxy.spb.ru (zxy.spb.ru [195.70.199.98]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B15A261D; Sat, 7 Sep 2013 21:27:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from slw by zxy.spb.ru with local (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1VIQ4r-0007LQ-Io; Sun, 08 Sep 2013 01:29:57 +0400 Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 01:29:57 +0400 From: Slawa Olhovchenkov To: Adrian Chadd Subject: Re: svn commit: r255323 - in head/sys: amd64/conf i386/conf Message-ID: <20130907212957.GF3796@zxy.spb.ru> References: <201309062024.r86KOMqm059838@svn.freebsd.org> <20130907081743.GB95723@zxy.spb.ru> <20130907170700.GB3796@zxy.spb.ru> <20130907210244.GE3796@zxy.spb.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: slw@zxy.spb.ru X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on zxy.spb.ru); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Cc: "src-committers@freebsd.org" , Bryan Venteicher , "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" , "Andrey V. Elsukov" , "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" , Edward Tomasz Napiera?a X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 21:27:53 -0000 On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 02:18:27PM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 7 September 2013 14:02, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 10:48:48PM +0200, Edward Tomasz Napiera?a wrote: > > > > > Wiadomo?? napisana przez Adrian Chadd 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. I think now -HEAD can't be more risky by one or two patches. > Thanks guys! I'm glad someone has already done a large part of this work! > > > > -adrian