[OE-core] [PATCH v2] package: Add cachedpath optimisation

[Chris Larson]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Richard Purdie <
richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> Currently, various standard library operations like os.walk(),
> os.path.isdir() and os.path.islink() each call stat or lstat which
> involves a syscall into the kernel. There is no caching since they could
> conceivably have changed on disk. The result is that for something like
> the do_package task of the kernel we're spending over two minutes making
> 868,000 individual stat calls for 23,000 files. This is suboptimal.
>
> This patch adds lib/oe/cachedpath.py which are a set of replacement
> functions for these operations which use cached stat data rather than
> hitting the kernel each time. It gives a nice performance improvement
> halving the build time of the kernel do_package.
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
>

Looks good, nice job.

Signed-off-by: Christopher Larson <chris_larson at mentor.com>
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Christopher Larson
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