[OE-core] [PATCH] utils.py: add parallel make helpers

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Sun Feb 18 01:01:46 UTC 2018


On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 4:48 PM Joshua Watt <jpewhacker at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Feb 17, 2018 18:25, "Khem Raj" <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 2/16/18 12:14 PM, Martin Jansa wrote:
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>> +            v = max(limit, v)
>>
>> this seems to be doing the opposite of what the limit was used for before:
>>
>> -                v = min(64, int(v))
>>
>>
> moreover, I think the limit should be based on ncpu() instead of hard
> coding it.
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>
> I don't know about that. Doesn't PARALLEL_MAKE already default to
> something based on ncpu()? My understanding of the limit was that some
> recipes (boost? waf?) have a limit on the amount of parallism they can
> reasonably stand, and you don't want those recipes to break if someone sets PARALLEL_MAKE="-j
> 1000".
>

Ah yes that’s a fair point

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> As long as that is true I think this is correct. Whether those recipes
> still need to limit their parallism is another discussion.
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> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 8:39 PM, Joshua Watt <jpewhacker at gmail.com
>> <mailto:jpewhacker at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     The code to extract the integer number of parallel build threads and
>>     construct a new argument from them has started to be copied in
>> multiple
>>     locations, so create two new helper utilities to aid recipes.
>>
>>     The first helper (parallel_make()) extracts the integer number of
>>     parallel build threads from PARALLEL_MAKE. The second
>>     (parallel_make_argument()) does the same and then puts the result back
>>     into a format string, optionally clamping it to some maximum value.
>>
>>     Additionally, rework the oe-core recipes that were manually doing this
>>     to use the new helper utilities.
>>
>>     Signed-off-by: Joshua Watt <JPEWhacker at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:JPEWhacker at gmail.com>>
>>
>>     ---
>>       meta/classes/go.bbclass              | 19 +---------------
>>       meta/classes/waf.bbclass             | 24 +-------------------
>>       meta/lib/oe/utils.py                 | 43
>>     ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>       meta/recipes-core/ovmf/ovmf_git.bb <http://ovmf_git.bb>   |  2 +-
>>
>>       meta/recipes-support/boost/boost.inc | 24 +-------------------
>>       5 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 65 deletions(-)
>>
>>     diff --git a/meta/classes/go.bbclass b/meta/classes/go.bbclass
>>     index 09b01a84c37..7ecd8c92541 100644
>>     --- a/meta/classes/go.bbclass
>>     +++ b/meta/classes/go.bbclass
>>     @@ -1,23 +1,6 @@
>>       inherit goarch ptest
>>
>>     -def get_go_parallel_make(d):
>>     -    pm = (d.getVar('PARALLEL_MAKE') or '').split()
>>     -    # look for '-j' and throw other options (e.g. '-l') away
>>     -    # because they might have a different meaning in golang
>>     -    while pm:
>>     -        opt = pm.pop(0)
>>     -        if opt == '-j':
>>     -            v = pm.pop(0)
>>     -        elif opt.startswith('-j'):
>>     -            v = opt[2:].strip()
>>     -        else:
>>     -            continue
>>     -
>>     -        return '-p %d' % int(v)
>>     -
>>     -    return ""
>>     -
>>     -GO_PARALLEL_BUILD ?= "${@get_go_parallel_make(d)}"
>>     +GO_PARALLEL_BUILD ?= "${@oe.utils.parallel_make_argument(d, '-p
>> %d')}"
>>
>>       GOROOT_class-native = "${STAGING_LIBDIR_NATIVE}/go"
>>       GOROOT_class-nativesdk = "${STAGING_DIR_TARGET}${libdir}/go"
>>     diff --git a/meta/classes/waf.bbclass b/meta/classes/waf.bbclass
>>     index bdbdc56767c..f9a851d0759 100644
>>     --- a/meta/classes/waf.bbclass
>>     +++ b/meta/classes/waf.bbclass
>>     @@ -3,28 +3,6 @@ DISABLE_STATIC = ""
>>
>>       EXTRA_OECONF_append = " ${PACKAGECONFIG_CONFARGS}"
>>
>>     -def get_waf_parallel_make(d):
>>     -    pm = d.getVar('PARALLEL_MAKE')
>>     -    if pm:
>>     -        # look for '-j' and throw other options (e.g. '-l') away
>>     -        # because they might have different meaning in bjam
>>     -        pm = pm.split()
>>     -        while pm:
>>     -            v = None
>>     -            opt = pm.pop(0)
>>     -            if opt == '-j':
>>     -                v = pm.pop(0)
>>     -            elif opt.startswith('-j'):
>>     -                v = opt[2:].strip()
>>     -            else:
>>     -                v = None
>>     -
>>     -            if v:
>>     -                v = min(64, int(v))
>>     -                return '-j' + str(v)
>>     -
>>     -    return ""
>>     -
>>       python waf_preconfigure() {
>>           import subprocess
>>           from distutils.version import StrictVersion
>>     @@ -47,7 +25,7 @@ waf_do_configure() {
>>
>>       do_compile[progress] = "outof:^\[\s*(\d+)/\s*(\d+)\]\s+"
>>       waf_do_compile()  {
>>     -       ${S}/waf build ${@get_waf_parallel_make(d)}
>>     +       ${S}/waf build ${@oe.utils.parallel_make_argument(d, '-j%d',
>>     limit=64)}
>>       }
>>
>>       waf_do_install() {
>>     diff --git a/meta/lib/oe/utils.py b/meta/lib/oe/utils.py
>>     index 7a79d752b69..ec91927233a 100644
>>     --- a/meta/lib/oe/utils.py
>>     +++ b/meta/lib/oe/utils.py
>>     @@ -156,6 +156,49 @@ def any_distro_features(d, features,
>>     truevalue="1", falsevalue=""):
>>           """
>>           return bb.utils.contains_any("DISTRO_FEATURES", features,
>>     truevalue, falsevalue, d)
>>
>>     +def parallel_make(d):
>>     +    """
>>     +    Return the integer value for the number of parallel threads to
>>     use when
>>     +    building, scraped out of PARALLEL_MAKE. If no parallelization
>>     option is
>>     +    found, returns None
>>     +
>>     +    e.g. if PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j 10", this will return 10 as an
>> integer.
>>     +    """
>>     +    pm = (d.getVar('PARALLEL_MAKE') or '').split()
>>     +    # look for '-j' and throw other options (e.g. '-l') away
>>     +    while pm:
>>     +        opt = pm.pop(0)
>>     +        if opt == '-j':
>>     +            v = pm.pop(0)
>>     +        elif opt.startswith('-j'):
>>     +            v = opt[2:].strip()
>>     +        else:
>>     +            continue
>>     +
>>     +        return int(v)
>>     +
>>     +    return None
>>     +
>>     +def parallel_make_argument(d, fmt, limit=None):
>>     +    """
>>     +    Helper utility to construct a parallel make argument from the
>>     number of
>>     +    parallel threads specified in PARALLEL_MAKE.
>>     +
>>     +    Returns the input format string `fmt` where a single '%d' will
>>     be expanded
>>     +    with the number of parallel threads to use. If `limit` is
>>     specified, the
>>     +    number of parallel threads will be no larger than it. If no
>>     parallelization
>>     +    option is found in PARALLEL_MAKE, returns an empty string
>>     +
>>     +    e.g. if PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j 10", parallel_make_argument(d, "-n
>>     %d") will return
>>     +    "-n 10"
>>     +    """
>>     +    v = parallel_make(d)
>>     +    if v:
>>     +        if limit:
>>     +            v = max(limit, v)
>>     +        return fmt % v
>>     +    return ''
>>     +
>>       def packages_filter_out_system(d):
>>           """
>>           Return a list of packages from PACKAGES with the "system"
>>     packages such as
>>     diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/ovmf/ovmf_git.bb <http://ovmf_git.bb>
>>     b/meta/recipes-core/ovmf/ovmf_git.bb <http://ovmf_git.bb>
>>     index fa0d66291d1..8750b3c528d 100644
>>     --- a/meta/recipes-core/ovmf/ovmf_git.bb <http://ovmf_git.bb>
>>     +++ b/meta/recipes-core/ovmf/ovmf_git.bb <http://ovmf_git.bb>
>>
>>     @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ do_compile_class-native() {
>>
>>       do_compile_class-target() {
>>           export LFLAGS="${LDFLAGS}"
>>     -    PARALLEL_JOBS="${@ '${PARALLEL_MAKE}'.replace('-j', '-n ')}"
>>     +    PARALLEL_JOBS="${@oe.utils.parallel_make_argument(d, '-n %d')}"
>>           OVMF_ARCH="X64"
>>           if [ "${TARGET_ARCH}" != "x86_64" ] ; then
>>               OVMF_ARCH="IA32"
>>     diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/boost/boost.inc
>>     b/meta/recipes-support/boost/boost.inc
>>     index 41fc90fb211..0461ec6fcf1 100644
>>     --- a/meta/recipes-support/boost/boost.inc
>>     +++ b/meta/recipes-support/boost/boost.inc
>>     @@ -135,29 +135,7 @@ BJAM_TOOLS   = "--ignore-site-config \
>>
>>       # use PARALLEL_MAKE to speed up the build, but limit it by -j 64,
>>     greater parallelism causes bjam to segfault or to ignore -j
>>       # https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7634
>>     <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7634>
>>     -def get_boost_parallel_make(d):
>>     -    pm = d.getVar('PARALLEL_MAKE')
>>     -    if pm:
>>     -        # look for '-j' and throw other options (e.g. '-l') away
>>     -        # because they might have different meaning in bjam
>>     -        pm = pm.split()
>>     -        while pm:
>>     -            v = None
>>     -            opt = pm.pop(0)
>>     -            if opt == '-j':
>>     -                v = pm.pop(0)
>>     -            elif opt.startswith('-j'):
>>     -                v = opt[2:].strip()
>>     -            else:
>>     -                v = None
>>     -
>>     -            if v:
>>     -                v = min(64, int(v))
>>     -                return '-j' + str(v)
>>     -
>>     -    return ""
>>     -
>>     -BOOST_PARALLEL_MAKE = "${@get_boost_parallel_make(d)}"
>>     +BOOST_PARALLEL_MAKE = "${@oe.utils.parallel_make_argument(d,
>>     '-j%d', limit=64)}"
>>       BJAM_OPTS    = '${BOOST_PARALLEL_MAKE} -d+2 -q \
>>                      ${BJAM_TOOLS} \
>>                      -sBOOST_BUILD_USER_CONFIG=${WORKDIR}/user-config.jam
>> \
>>     --
>>     2.14.3
>>
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