The edk2 "build" utility natively supports building modules (that is, INF
files) in parallel. The feature is not useful when building a single
module (with the "-m" option), but it is useful for platform firmware
builds (which include many modules). Add a function that determines the
"-n" option argument for "build", from the MAKEFLAGS variable (i.e. based
on the presence of a make job server).
Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mpriv...@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com>
---
Notes:
v2:
- pick up Phil's R-b / T-b
- pick up Michal's and Michael's R-b's
roms/edk2-funcs.sh | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
diff --git a/roms/edk2-funcs.sh b/roms/edk2-funcs.sh
index d1cb1e4a111e..a9fae7ee891b 100644
--- a/roms/edk2-funcs.sh
+++ b/roms/edk2-funcs.sh
@@ -226,3 +226,28 @@ qemu_edk2_set_cross_env()
eval "export $cross_prefix_var=\$cross_prefix"
}
+
+
+# Determine the "-n" option argument (that is, the number of modules to build
+# in parallel) for the edk2 "build" utility. Print the result to the standard
+# output.
+#
+# Parameters:
+# $1: the value of the MAKEFLAGS variable
+qemu_edk2_get_thread_count()
+{
+ local makeflags="$1"
+
+ if [[ "$makeflags" == *--jobserver-auth=* ]] ||
+ [[ "$makeflags" == *--jobserver-fds=* ]]; then
+ # If there is a job server, allow the edk2 "build" utility to parallelize
+ # as many module builds as there are logical CPUs in the system. The "make"
+ # instances forked by "build" are supposed to limit themselves through the
+ # job server. The zero value below causes the edk2 "build" utility to fetch
+ # the logical CPU count with Python's multiprocessing.cpu_count() method.
+ printf '0\n'
+ else
+ # Build a single module at a time.
+ printf '1\n'
+ fi
+}
--
2.19.1.3.g30247aa5d201
