Date: Sat, 18 May 2024 16:03:23 +0000 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> To: Alan Somers <asomers@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-main@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: git: 3bb5428ad643 - main - rc.conf.5: remove obsolete advice about kld_list Message-ID: <0100018f8c718fa2-97f5fd82-ec7e-4e28-8cee-7c6da90cecbd-000000@email.amazonses.com> In-Reply-To: <202405181551.44IFpenT061023@gitrepo.freebsd.org> References: <202405181551.44IFpenT061023@gitrepo.freebsd.org>
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On 5/18/24 08:51, Alan Somers wrote: > commit 3bb5428ad643e38dd755c8d66c8ac2ae8f7575b5 > > rc.conf.5: remove obsolete advice about kld_list > > Loading modules via kld_list is no longer substantially faster than via > loader.conf. Where did you benchmark this? I can believe that performance is similar using UEFI, but on systems booting with BIOS doing I/O from the loader is very slow because the 20-bit address space forces us to use small I/Os. -- Colin Percival FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
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