[bitbake-devel] [PATCH] bitbake: added -j option
Enrico Scholz
enrico.scholz at sigma-chemnitz.de
Sun May 20 15:21:07 UTC 2012
This patch adds an -j option which overrides/sets BB_NUMBER_THREADS.
For some use cases like '-c fetchall' it might be useful to modify
temporarily the number of parallel running tasks without editing
bitbake.conf.
Signed-off-by: Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz at sigma-chemnitz.de>
---
bin/bitbake | 4 ++++
doc/bitbake.1 | 4 ++++
lib/bb/cooker.py | 7 +++++++
3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/bin/bitbake b/bin/bitbake
index 478ac06..b29fae9 100755
--- a/bin/bitbake
+++ b/bin/bitbake
@@ -171,6 +171,10 @@ Default BBFILES are the .bb files in the current directory.""")
parser.add_option("-B", "--bind", help = "The name/address for the bitbake server to bind to",
action = "store", dest = "bind", default = False)
+
+ parser.add_option("-j", "--jobs", help = "The number of threads BitBake should run at once",
+ action = "store", dest = "number_threads", default = None)
+
options, args = parser.parse_args(sys.argv)
configuration = BBConfiguration(options)
diff --git a/doc/bitbake.1 b/doc/bitbake.1
index d9d3902..d1f1a40 100644
--- a/doc/bitbake.1
+++ b/doc/bitbake.1
@@ -103,6 +103,10 @@ Show debug logging for the specified logging domains
.TP
.B \-P, \-\-profile
profile the command and print a report
+.TP
+.B \-j\fR [\fIjobs\fR], \fB\-\-jobs\fR[=\fIjobs\fR]
+The number of threads BitBake should run at once. This option
+overrides the \fI${BB_NUMBER_THREADS}\fR configuration variable.
.SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
bitbake uses the following environment variables to control its
diff --git a/lib/bb/cooker.py b/lib/bb/cooker.py
index 123d0c1..a1e2347 100644
--- a/lib/bb/cooker.py
+++ b/lib/bb/cooker.py
@@ -142,6 +142,13 @@ class BBCooker:
self.configuration.data = None
self.loadConfigurationData()
+ if self.configuration.number_threads != None:
+ num = int(self.configuration.number_threads)
+ if num == 0:
+ num = multiprocessing.cpu_count()
+
+ self.configuration.data.setVar("BB_NUMBER_THREADS", str(num))
+
# Take a lock so only one copy of bitbake can run against a given build
# directory at a time
lockfile = self.configuration.data.expand("${TOPDIR}/bitbake.lock")
--
1.7.7.6
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