[OE-core] [PATCH] linux-yocto-dev: Handle performance regression

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 2016-07-08 01:00 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> After commit 0437a59e3c298d40aaa96af09b80bff8fcbe292d, the linux-yocto-dev
> recipe is being parsed every time we run "bitbake -p". This was spotted
> on some performance benchmarks and showed up as a performance regression.
>
> We can tweak the recipe to ensure this doesn't happen and that its only
> used if selected.

Makes sense to me.

Acked-by: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield at windriver.com>


>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
>
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-dev.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-dev.bb
> index 3085263..c50b319 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-dev.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-dev.bb
> @@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ include recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-dev-revisions.inc
>   python () {
>       if d.getVar("PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel", True) != "linux-yocto-dev":
>           raise bb.parse.SkipPackage("Set PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel to linux-yocto-dev to enable it")
> +    else:
> +        d.setVar("SRCREV_machine", "${AUTOREV}")
> +        d.setVar("SRCREV_meta", "${AUTOREV}")
>   }
>
>   KBRANCH = "standard/base"
> @@ -33,8 +36,8 @@ SRC_URI = "git://git.yoctoproject.org/linux-yocto-dev.git;branch=${KBRANCH};name
>   # linux-yocto-dev is the preferred provider, they will be overridden to
>   # AUTOREV in following anonymous python routine and resolved when the
>   # variables are finalized.
> -SRCREV_machine ?= '${@oe.utils.conditional("PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel", "linux-yocto-dev", "${AUTOREV}", "29594404d7fe73cd80eaa4ee8c43dcc53970c60e", d)}'
> -SRCREV_meta ?= '${@oe.utils.conditional("PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel", "linux-yocto-dev", "${AUTOREV}", "29594404d7fe73cd80eaa4ee8c43dcc53970c60e", d)}'
> +SRCREV_machine ?= "29594404d7fe73cd80eaa4ee8c43dcc53970c60e"
> +SRCREV_meta ?= "29594404d7fe73cd80eaa4ee8c43dcc53970c60e"
>
>   LINUX_VERSION ?= "4.6-rc+"
>   LINUX_VERSION_EXTENSION ?= "-yoctodev-${LINUX_KERNEL_TYPE}"
>
>