Re: Grub2 EFI: Image loading from USB takes too long

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 26.04.2011 05:03, Bean wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It's not decided by fs driver, it's configured by a flag in
> grub_file_open, which is passed to the disk driver. There is only a
> few places where we can expect large file, such as linux/initrd
> command.
Yet worse, such a high level shouldn't care about low-level at all.
>  And in this case, caching is useless since we only use the
> data once and caching would only flush out useful data unnecessarily.
> By setting a flag to indicate direct read is required, we can optimize
> access for such situation while keeping the cache for others. This is
> similar to the pass through flag for linux/windows.
I don't think that the intent is the same. Under OS considerations are
more along transaction-safeness and barriers for databases and cache
disabling for system software. Normal application shouldn't use those flags.
>> Which is an example of bad design. Rather than improving the existing
>> function to do both caching and unbroken read (like in my 4096 branch)
>> you have 2 functions and force upper layers to do the tradeoffs and care
>> about matters which should be abstracted and invisible to them.
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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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