Readahead concurrently with udev coldplug?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [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

Becase every bit of paralelism that doesn't slow down one of the components
help :)

> we will need to measure the effect on boot speed for different
> approaches.

Yes, that's the better approach.

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  Henrique Holschuh