Re: [morty/rocko/master][PATCH] ti-pdk: Weakly assign PARALLEL_XDC

[Denys Dmytriyenko <denys@ti.com>]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 04:00:24PM -0500, Joshua Watt wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-04-02 at 16:20 -0400, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 02:47:28PM -0500, Joshua Watt wrote:
> > > Allowing it to be overridden in local.conf
> > 
> > Why?
> 
> For some reason, when some ti-pdk recipes are built on my machine, the
> number of threads explodes exponentially.... It ends up launching
> several hundreds to thousands of threads which consequently make my
> computer unresponsive for quite a while, and I usually have to reboot
> it afterwards because something important stopped working.
> 
> I think for some reason the --jobs= flag is getting compounded
> recursively.
> 
> Admittedly, there appears to be some deeper bug with the job
> parallelism that needs to be looked into, but this at least allows me
> to continue working (by setting PARALLEL_XDC = "" in local.conf) in the
> meantime.
> 
> I'm on the latest HEAD of morty BTW.

Do you only see this behavior on morty? What about rocko/master?

I've asked around and we don't see this issue internally and we do a lot of 
builds in our build farm on a daily basis...

Since this is otherwise a harmless change, I don't mind merging it. Please let 
me know if you actually do need it in all 3 branches. Thanks.


> > > Signed-off-by: Joshua Watt <JPEWhacker@gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > >  classes/ti-pdk.bbclass | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/classes/ti-pdk.bbclass b/classes/ti-pdk.bbclass
> > > index 540a665c..0b0c9ffe 100644
> > > --- a/classes/ti-pdk.bbclass
> > > +++ b/classes/ti-pdk.bbclass
> > > @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ TI_PDK_DOXYGEN_SUPPORT ?= "1"
> > >  
> > >  TI_PDK_XDC_ARGS ?= "${TI_PDK_LIMIT_SOCS}"
> > >  
> > > -PARALLEL_XDC = "--jobs=${BB_NUMBER_THREADS}"
> > > +PARALLEL_XDC ?= "--jobs=${BB_NUMBER_THREADS}"
> > >  PARALLEL_MAKE = ""
> > >  
> > >  def get_doxygen_support(d):
> > > -- 
> > > 2.14.3
> > > 
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