11188 2017-03-20 04:23:16 +0000 devtool: optimise task execution 2017-07-25 09:44:18 +0000 1 1 7 Build System, Metadata & Runtime OE-Core Scripts and Tools 2.2 All Multiple RESOLVED FIXED Medium enhancement 2.4 M2 1 bluelightning bluelightning ross.burton --- --- No (bug/feature does not impact docs) oldest_to_newest 71440 0 bluelightning 2017-03-20 04:23:16 +0000 If you run devtool modify on the kernel (worst case example, but other recipes are affected) there are things being done that shouldn't be done - e.g. multiple parses of the configuration, summary messages, events etc. Here's the output where you can see some of it: ------------ snip ------------ $ devtool modify virtual/kernel Loading cache: 100% |########################################| Time: 0:00:00 Loaded 2181 entries from dependency cache. NOTE: Mapping virtual/kernel to linux-intel Loading cache: 100% |########################################| Time: 0:00:00 Loaded 2181 entries from dependency cache. NOTE: Executing RunQueue Tasks NOTE: Executing do_fetch... NOTE: Executing do_unpack... NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 2 tasks of which 0 didn't need to be rerun and all succeeded. NOTE: Writing buildhistory NOTE: Executing RunQueue Tasks NOTE: Executing do_kernel_checkout... NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 3 tasks of which 2 didn't need to be rerun and all succeeded. NOTE: Writing buildhistory NOTE: Patching... NOTE: Executing RunQueue Tasks NOTE: Executing do_validate_branches... NOTE: Executing do_kernel_metadata... NOTE: Executing do_patch... NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 6 tasks of which 3 didn't need to be rerun and all succeeded. NOTE: Writing buildhistory NOTE: Generating kernel config NOTE: Executing RunQueue Tasks NOTE: Executing do_prepare_recipe_sysroot... NOTE: Executing do_kernel_configme... NOTE: Executing do_configure... NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 9 tasks of which 6 didn't need to be rerun and all succeeded. NOTE: Writing buildhistory NOTE: Adding local source files to srctree... NOTE: Copying kernel config to srctree NOTE: Source tree extracted to /home/paul/poky/poky/build/workspace/sources/linux-intel NOTE: Recipe linux-intel now set up to build from /home/paul/poky/poky/build/workspace/sources/linux-intel ------------ snip ------------ We should try to tidy up the output and optimise the performance from the tinfoil side of things as much as possible. 75272 1 bluelightning 2017-07-25 09:44:18 +0000 So this is now fixed with the following changes (and probably some others): http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=a9848fdd46f4f567444e00892a0f5868deea1643 http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=7eb654cb4d82b54e3e4df0a57face61063b72c45 http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=192b2e15369fd052e5e4d5f70c5f5d83d50c2b5b Running devtool modify on the kernel still takes quite a long time but it's now mostly about the kernel tasks themselves rather than how they are being run.