From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1N22wz-0005n8-3v for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:16:01 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N22wx-0005mN-PM for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:15:59 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N22wt-0005kP-9m for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:15:59 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42387 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N22wt-0005kM-4v for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:15:55 -0400 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:44464 helo=aybabtu.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N22ws-0001sk-OU for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:15:55 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N22wr-0004bh-DA for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:15:53 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N22wq-00071P-OM for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:15:52 +0100 Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:15:52 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20091025131552.GB21606@thorin> References: <20091025003617.GH28534@riva.ucam.org> <4AE41A15.7050504@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4AE41A15.7050504@gmail.com> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support RAID on virtio devices, and others X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:16:00 -0000 On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 10:27:49AM +0100, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Not true. Even in current state grub-mkconfig is taking considerable > time to complete on my system with numerous kernels. Unless someone > implements a cache (it can be invalidated after 5 minutes) not to go > through the same probing procedure on every grub-probe call I object > against adding any additional delay in probing procedure I've been thinking for a while that grub-probe does a few too many things, perhaps if it is split in separate commands, and the upper layer makes appropiate use of them (e.g. by remembering results so they don't need to be re-obtained), we could optimize this without need for a cache in the lower layer. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."