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Date:      Thu, 18 Feb 2016 20:53:20 -0800
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@sippysoft.com>
Cc:        Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org>, Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@freebsd.org>,  "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>,  "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>,  "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r229537 - in head/sys: conf geom/uncompress modules/geom/geom_uncompress
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It passed the "it's working code and it's immediately useful" filter.

I'd love to see them both unified somehow. I really would!


-a


On 18 February 2016 at 17:28, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@sippysoft.com> wrote:
> Sigh, I don't now how it managed to sleep through usually tight FreeBSD
> peer-review process. It would be interesting to hear some comments from @ray
> and @adrian, perhaps there were some reasons for it being done this way,
> although I cannot see any in a hindsight.
>
> I am just in the middle of rather substantial overhaul of both kernel and
> userland part here:
>
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5333
>
> And once that committed it will take them apart again. I've also spend quite
> lot of time testing my change set, which would with very little effort have
> covered both formats had I started with unified code base. :(
>
> I also plan on making further improvement into kernel module, as it is right
> now both g_uzip and g_uncompress basically piggyback single "g_up" thread,
> so you cannot use multiple cores even for different instances, let alone one
> instance being accessed by multiple readers. And it also can delay other
> unrelated I/O requests by maxing out CPU time slice available for the g_up.
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 2/18/2016 3:57 PM, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
>> > Aleksandr, Adrian,
>> >
>> > I know it's 3 years later, but I really don't know why it's been done
>> > this way. Take a GEOM module and associated usr.bin utility, copy it
>> > verbatim add few lines of code and re-add that as a new module seems
>> > like just laziness and attempt to avoid doing extra work on making
>> > unified code. The same goes for the mkulzma, which is almost 1:1 copy of
>> > the mkuzip. Now people are merging back and forth and I've just spent
>> > few days testing some rather major rework of geom_uzip / mkuzip code not
>> > even realizing that there is its evil twin in the tree. :(
>>
>> r283104 is an example of one of these problems. It was a catch-up of
>> uzip's r268986 done almost a year before. I did comparisons before using
>> uzip last summer and ran across that one.
>>
>> >
>> > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5333
>> >
>> > I suggest functionality from both geom_uncompress / mkulzma are folded
>> > now back into geom_uzip / mkuzip and geom_uncompress / mkulzma are nuked
>> > afterwards.
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >     Author: ray
>> >     Date: Wed Jan 4 23:39:11 2012
>> >     New Revision: 229537
>> >     URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/229537
>> >     Log:
>> >     GEOM_UNCOMPRESS module, can be used with uzip images and with new
>> >     ulzma images.
>> >     Approved by: adrian (mentor)
>> >     Added:
>> >     head/sys/geom/uncompress/
>> >     head/sys/geom/uncompress/g_uncompress.c (contents, props changed)
>> >     head/sys/modules/geom/geom_uncompress/
>> >     head/sys/modules/geom/geom_uncompress/Makefile (contents, props
>> > changed)
>> >     Modified:
>> >     head/sys/conf/files
>> >     head/sys/conf/options
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Bryan Drewery
>>
>
>
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