Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 17:10:13 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, Bryan Venteicher <bryanv@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, ae@FreeBSD.org, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, Edward Tomasz Napiera?a <trasz@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r255323 - in head/sys: amd64/conf i386/conf Message-ID: <0BB1A79B-F679-4D9B-9547-5B53926294E9@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20150115142725.GA20964@FreeBSD.org> References: <201309062024.r86KOMqm059838@svn.freebsd.org> <CAGaYwLcV8hS%2Bk_B2xozcqfdz5TcJ%2BgyN=6whO8wJ_6puW1_njg@mail.gmail.com> <20130907081743.GB95723@zxy.spb.ru> <CAGaYwLcibUVY1C8BMUjRart75HBNMu4W-ddjSK5pHb3JYhf1Gg@mail.gmail.com> <20130907170700.GB3796@zxy.spb.ru> <CAJ-VmoksU9R4cPsVtxzMma_QHv0Hsm8mTCVixOEVKx2_uS-8eA@mail.gmail.com> <EE92600F-0A1B-4684-B928-410AE12B128D@FreeBSD.org> <20130907210244.GE3796@zxy.spb.ru> <20150115142725.GA20964@FreeBSD.org>
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--Apple-Mail=_1512E83F-E07C-409F-9D7E-346BDC138BE2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > On Jan 15, 2015, at 7:27 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> = wrote: >=20 > 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. >>>=20 >>> 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. >>=20 >> 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. >=20 > It's kind of funny we seem to have similar discussion happening right = now > again -- sixteen months later. >=20 > 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=E2=80=99m improving the loader to = (optionally) load any drivers for storage-class devices it finds on the PCI / PCIe bus. I=E2=80=99m = augmenting /boot/$KERNEL/linker.hints with some additional data so /boot/loader = knows what to load. Warner --Apple-Mail=_1512E83F-E07C-409F-9D7E-346BDC138BE2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJUuahlAAoJEGwc0Sh9sBEAhZwP/0SaPG3YETs9pRme6RHa6Iy/ PMi1FT5M/BoZlIHJCHh9nMAvm226OhCzt7Qh6h74noy0mZVCMarWXZ6fw9PywrYR zUZoMRF00qpmHLp4/1UyuP9IP0iLnAdUJ8QHgtA6bTZvLd53BrltikAPHHInjNEH N6UHLxCsyM3rgffeykh3iT+mKOlvNqs8+IN80DLRAGX/HiLkblS1qsTsLNRJSDmH GoyX9MPfxkFcLAleDYeUVURxLXZurj+j61emlN4CG9nMh9QGh+Y6zpKaS+7rUCf4 Yif/sqXDWxLtH+xaBeHY8sctrJBekHYMfsiXJqldtqFd2oKn2FxWbLKT/VQWo1xd YAVD5rjNTkgCNgJsNzHRyrJWWsv8lUAzmnPQ1q/EN7qQPtAymPhXG5Kh4l2bZEpu QMXrQs0zEmabTSkZjZtEGXQOnP6i1e6eg6GDYR8YG7AtSCNMCo3SM/OHFncNq6XM cRdUCMUIPA/WLET2gOXMLMf5ikZaEA1EO2W5lDhVTOYeiNWWQuVMuVewrDLCpUG6 T1EzP5LDetIBwmQVcTs/JpUD52HLHFo3AgfWhLPX3RpCiA4cqjFP7WvRPMdQM8Iz adxP+xNFN0S4uw2WbDuTV8UIPTUcC30f2hcklBhFWOXiPs6crOSbhJzs6qxsT1cJ gOZZJZHyR2ZcIcMoJiDk =VVMf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_1512E83F-E07C-409F-9D7E-346BDC138BE2--
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