Not sure if this is the correct category for this, but like many I try to slim down my boot process as much as possible. Recently after switching to the systemd mkinit hooks, I have slimmed a couple seconds off what it was before but Im seeing quite a bit that I don’t understand now that I have changed boot hooks. I have done reading on the boot process but I’m having trouble narrowing down what I can change to expedite the process.
The only thing I can see in the journal that is causing problems is an elusive xhci error that adds a second or two to boot, but my attempts to fix it have been very 50/50 in fixing it. Connected to the charger or dock, it is not an issue but on battery power xhci is very delayed. I have tried disabling ASPM for battery, blacklisting the modules needed for xhci from ASPM, etc. and the problem has still only been fixed when attached to a power source.
The following are relevant lines in my mkinitcpio conf, and the output of both systemd-analyze and systemd-analyze blame
MODULES=(amdgpu radeon vfat)
HOOKS=(systemd autodetect kms keyboard sd-vconsole modconf block sd-encrypt filesystems fsck)
BINARIES=()
COMPRESSION="cat"
Startup finished in 12.355s (firmware) + 536ms (loader) + 5.702s (kernel) + 5.666s (initrd) + 5.488s (userspace) = 29.748s
graphical.target reached after 4.041s in userspace.
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6.566s dev-disk-by\x2ddiskseq-2.device
5.982s sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:08.1-0000:07:00.0-backlight-amdgpu_bl0.device
1.445s tlp.service
1.376s systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
1.266s systemd-binfmt.service
1.188s ldconfig.service
1.178s proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.mount
963ms initrd-switch-root.service
596ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
526ms systemd-remount-fs.service
437ms systemd-modules-load.service
411ms modprobe@fuse.service
384ms systemd-sysusers.service
322ms modprobe@drm.service
306ms systemd-random-seed.service
269ms systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-FC5A\x2d980E.service
232ms lvm2-monitor.service
228ms user@1000.service
206ms systemd-boot-system-token.service
196ms systemd-journal-flush.service
190ms systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-B2D5\x2d3B2D.service
182ms kmod-static-nodes.service
148ms systemd-journal-catalog-update.service
133ms mnt-mmc\x2dSN256_0x6058c0cf\x2dpart1.mount
127ms systemd-backlight@leds:tpacpi::kbd_backlight.service
124ms systemd-logind.service
114ms upower.service
99ms dev-hugepages.mount
99ms dev-mqueue.mount
98ms sys-kernel-debug.mount
98ms sys-kernel-tracing.mount
97ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
93ms user-runtime-dir@1000.service
91ms systemd-backlight@backlight:amdgpu_bl0.service
90ms systemd-journald.service
79ms systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service
78ms systemd-update-done.service
77ms systemd-user-sessions.service
69ms swapfile.swap
66ms systemd-timesyncd.service
65ms systemd-sysctl.service
65ms systemd-update-utmp.service
47ms initrd-cleanup.service
40ms systemd-udevd.service
24ms bluetooth.service
23ms NetworkManager.service
21ms polkit.service
21ms dbus.service
13ms systemd-fsck-root.service
12ms wpa_supplicant.service
9ms initrd-parse-etc.service
5ms sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount
4ms rtkit-daemon.service
4ms sys-kernel-config.mount
3ms initrd-udevadm-cleanup-db.service
3ms boot.mount
2ms efi.mount
2ms modprobe@configfs.service
1ms tmp.mount
Is there anything here that I can change or edit to shorten boot? I am already using an uncompressed initramfs and have kms enabled. The most irritating/troubling part is the rfkill services as I have systemd-rfkill maksed as per tlp configuration. So if tlp is taking care of the rfkill stuff, how can I disable the other .device entries at the top?
This device is also using LUKS which I realize will bottleneck my boot time significantly. I am unsure if minimizing the mkinit as described here will help much as removing autodetect seems mostly just to reduce time spent creating an image at update. I’m also not quite sure what hooks I need with systemd instead of base.
Any advice is appreciated greatly. I’m not fully an idiot on this topic as I’ve gotten my desktop to a 4s boot (on old and cheap hardware) and using minimal modules but it always helps to get another perspective. Im using sytemd-boot as well. Any other info I forgot can be posted if requested. Thanks!
