Readahead concurrently with udev coldplug?

Petter Reinholdtsen pere at hungry.com
Fri Aug 22 20:47:17 UTC 2008


[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]
> I have noticed in my lenny laptop that readahead runs BEFORE udev coldplug,
> stalling for a few seconds on disk reads.
>
> Could we do both concurrently, or break it in two (udev readahead; udev
> coldplug + normal readahead)?

Why would it make sense to not do readahead before coldplug?  I guess
we will need to measure the effect on boot speed for different
approaches.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen




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