The work to make it possible to avoid bcache via using F_NORA modifier did
miss the fact that not all loader platforms are using the bcache, and so
it is possible the modifier is not cleared, as bcache strategy function is
not used.
For fix, we make sure the checks are dont with masked flag.
This patch does fix boot for platforms which do not use bcache.
Reported by: emaste
Reviewed by: emaste
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10422
Apparently the libstand dosfs optimization is a bit too optimistic
and did introduce possible memory corruption.
This patch is backing out the bad part and since this results in
dosfs reading full blocks now, we can also remove extra offset argument
from dv_strategy callback.
The analysis of the issue and the backout patch is provided by Mikhail Kupchik.
PR: 214423
Submitted by: Mikhail Kupchik
Reported by: Mikhail Kupchik
Reviewed by: bapt, allanjude
Approved by: allanjude (mentor)
MFC after: 1 month
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8644
lsdev command does walk over devsw list, prints list element name and
will use dv_print() callback to print the device list.
Unfortunately this approach will add unneeded noise when there are no
particular devices detected.
To remove "empty" device section headers, the dv_print() callback
should print the header instead.
In addition, fixed dv_print callback for md module.
Reviewed by: imp
Approved by: imp (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8551
The block cache implementation in loader has proven to be almost useless, and in worst case even slowing down the disk reads due to insufficient cache size and extra memory copy.
Also the current cache implementation does not cache reads from CDs, or work with zfs built on top of multiple disks.
Instead of an LRU, this code uses a simple hash (O(1) read from cache), and instead of a single global cache, a separate cache per block device.
The cache also implements limited read-ahead to increase performance.
To simplify read ahead management, the read ahead will not wrap over bcache end, so in worst case, single block physical read will be performed to fill the last block in bcache.
Booting from a virtual CD over IPMI:
0ms latency, before: 27 second, after: 7 seconds
60ms latency, before: over 12 minutes, after: under 5 minutes.
Submitted by: Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
Reviewed by: delphij (previous version), emaste (previous version)
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4713
is determined by MD_IMAGE_SIZE. A file system can be embedded
into the loader with /sys/tools/embed_mfs.sh.
Note that md.c is not included when MD_IMAGE_SIZE is not set.
