Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 14:27:25 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> 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, "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: <20150115142725.GA20964@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20130907210244.GE3796@zxy.spb.ru> 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>
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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? :) ./danfe
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