Re: git: 3bb5428ad643 - main - rc.conf.5: remove obsolete advice about kld_list

In reply to: Alan Somers : "git: 3bb5428ad643 - main - rc.conf.5: remove obsolete advice about kld_list"
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From: Colin Percival <cperciva_at_tarsnap.com>
Date: Sat, 18 May 2024 16:03:23 UTC

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.

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