From: Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
To: openembedded-core <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: [PATCH] opkg: Don't call sync() when installing into an offline root
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 13:20:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1348921205.4422.47.camel@x121e.pbcl.net> (raw)
Even when installing onto a live target system, calling sync() during
package installation is of somewhat questionable benefit. But calling
it on the build host during rootfs construction is certainly useless and
can cause I/O to stall for several seconds on even a moderately sized
host which is clearly not desirable.
(From a patch originally by Mike Crowe.)
Signed-off-by: Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
---
.../opkg/opkg/opkg-no-sync-offline.patch | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg_svn.bb | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
create mode 100644 meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg/opkg-no-sync-offline.patch
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg/opkg-no-sync-offline.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg/opkg-no-sync-offline.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b1b3453
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg/opkg-no-sync-offline.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+When installing into an offline root, calling sync() is pointless and just
+hurts performance. Don't let's do that.
+
+Signed-off-by: Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+
+--- a/libopkg/opkg_cmd.c 2011-09-08 10:53:07.000000000 +0100
++++ b/libopkg/opkg_cmd.c 2011-10-04 10:45:22.278615584 +0100
+@@ -64,7 +64,8 @@ write_status_files_if_changed(void)
+ opkg_msg(INFO, "Writing status file.\n");
+ opkg_conf_write_status_files();
+ pkg_write_changed_filelists();
+- sync();
++ if (!conf->offline_root)
++ sync();
+ } else {
+ opkg_msg(DEBUG, "Nothing to be done.\n");
+ }
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg_svn.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg_svn.bb
index 820a224..f206cd5 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg_svn.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg_svn.bb
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ SRC_URI = "svn://opkg.googlecode.com/svn;module=trunk;protocol=http \
file://0006-detect-circular-dependencies.patch \
file://0007-merge-newpkg-provides-even-when-oldpkg-provides-exis.patch \
file://0008-select_higher_version.patch \
+ file://opkg-no-sync-offline.patch \
"
S = "${WORKDIR}/trunk"
@@ -16,4 +17,4 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/trunk"
SRCREV = "633"
PV = "0.1.8+svnr${SRCPV}"
-PR = "${INC_PR}.4"
+PR = "${INC_PR}.5"
--
1.7.10.4
next reply other threads:[~2012-09-29 12:35 UTC|newest]
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2012-09-29 12:20 Phil Blundell [this message]
2012-10-02 15:15 ` [PATCH] opkg: Don't call sync() when installing into an offline root Saul Wold
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