On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 8:24 AM Claudius Heine <c...@denx.de> wrote:

> Hi Drew,
>
> On 2022-08-01 20:44, Drew Moseley wrote:
> > On 7/26/22 9:17 AM, drew.mose...@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> >> From: Drew Moseley <d...@moseleynet.net>
> >>
> >> The systemd-udev-settle service is listed as obsolete and does in
> >> some cases result in a significant boot time.  Replace that with
> >> "after systemd-modules-load" to allow the random source hardware
> >> to be loaded in the proper sequence.
> >>
> >> Before this change:
> >>
> >>     Startup finished in 4.025s (kernel) + 2min 13.236s (userspace) =
> >> 2min 17.262s
> >>     multi-user.target reached after 2min 8.153s in userspace
> >>
> >> After this change:
> >>
> >>     Startup finished in 3.956s (kernel) + 13.294s (userspace) = 17.250s
> >>     multi-user.target reached after 9.522s in userspace
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Drew Moseley <d...@moseleynet.net>
> >> ---
> >>   meta/recipes-support/rng-tools/rng-tools/rngd.service | 2 +-
> >>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/rng-tools/rng-tools/rngd.service
> >> b/meta/recipes-support/rng-tools/rng-tools/rngd.service
> >> index 568686e80e..e818cfcf78 100644
> >> --- a/meta/recipes-support/rng-tools/rng-tools/rngd.service
> >> +++ b/meta/recipes-support/rng-tools/rng-tools/rngd.service
> >> @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Description=Hardware RNG Entropy Gatherer Daemon
> >>   DefaultDependencies=no
> >>   After=systemd-udev-settle.service
> >>   Before=sysinit.target shutdown.target
> >> -Wants=systemd-udev-settle.service
> >> +After=systemd-modules-load.service
> >>   Conflicts=shutdown.target
> >>   [Service]
> >
> >
> > Hi Khem, Claudius,
> >
> > Any thoughts on this change? Obviously I cannot verify if the original
> > hardware combination issue is resolved and unfortunately it sounds like
> > you cannot either but I'm using this successfully to work around the
> > delayed boots I was seeing here.
>
> Well as I said, `systemd-modules-load.service` just waits until all
> statically configured modules are loaded, however not until the
> `/dev/hwrng` device node is available. `systemd-udev-settle.service`
> waits until all udev rules are applied, and that means it includes
> loading of all dynamically loaded modules as well as executing code that
> creates symlinks, etc.
>
> Instead of waiting for modules to be loaded, that might be unrelated or
> waiting for all (mostly unrelated) udev rules to be settled, I think
> waiting directly for the `/dev/hwrng` device node might be more explicit
> and specific.
>

Yeah something more surgical and pointed

Requires=dev-hwrng.device
After=dev-hwrng.device


Might be worth trying



> regards,
> Claudius
>
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