From: Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com>
To: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
Cc: Yocto Project <yocto@yoctoproject.org>
Subject: Re: sstate black hole?
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 18:19:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150407161935.GC22953@jama> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5523EF34.1000604@mlbassoc.com>
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On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 08:52:36AM -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
> I'm building for multiple ARM i.MX6 platforms. These have
> the same SoC, but slightly different peripherals. As far as
> I can tell, they should be able to share everything except
> for a few ${MACHINE} specific packages, e.g. the kernel and
> u-boot.
>
> Sadly, that doesn't seem to be the case. The architecture
> specific packages are being split into two categories - plain
> ARM/Cortex-A9 and those that have i.MX6 specific optimizations.
> For example, after building a complete image (on the order of
> core-image-sato), I have this split:
> $ ls tmp/work/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-amltd-linux-gnueabi/
> acl gst-player libsamplerate0 modutils-initscripts shadow-sysroot
> alsa-utils gst-plugins-bad libsm mpeg2dec shared-mime-info
> apmd gst-plugins-good libsndfile1 mplayer2 speex
> atk gst-plugins-ugly libsoup-2.4 mtdev sqlite3
> attr gstreamer libtheora ncurses startup-notification
> base-passwd gstreamer1.0 libtirpc neon strace
> ...
> gst-ffmpeg libpostproc matchbox-wm scrnsaverproto zlib
> gst-fluendo-mpegmux libproxy mkfontdir settings-daemon
> gst-meta-base libpthread-stubs mkfontscale shadow
>
> $ ls tmp/work/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-mx6qdl-amltd-linux-gnueabi/
> alsa-lib gst-plugins-base imx-gpu-viv libfslparser libsdl xf86-video-imxfb-vivante
> cairo gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad libdrm libfslvpuwrap mesa xserver-xorg
> firmware-imx gstreamer1.0-plugins-base libfslcodec libglu pulseaudio
>
> It's the second category that is causing problems. They do not
> seem to end up in any shareable sstate at all. If I try to rebuild
> using only sstate, i.e. build my complete image to success, then
> remove 'tmp' and rebuild, using the sstate-cache from the first go,
> all of the above packages (alsa-lib, ..., xserver-xorg) are all
> rebuilt from scratch. Those recipes do seem to end in my sstate-cache,
> but they are never reused from it.
>
> What would make this happen? How can I prevent it?
>
> As is, sstate is not really shareable between these i.MX6 targets
> as so much is being rebuilt all the time...
>
> Any ideas or pointers gladly welcomed.
Try openembedded-core/scripts/sstate-diff-machines.sh
to see why.
--
Martin 'JaMa' Jansa jabber: Martin.Jansa@gmail.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-07 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-07 14:52 sstate black hole? Gary Thomas
2015-04-07 15:27 ` Christopher Larson
2015-04-07 15:52 ` Gary Thomas
2015-04-07 16:19 ` Martin Jansa [this message]
2015-04-07 16:29 ` Gary Thomas
2015-04-07 16:33 ` Martin Jansa
2015-04-07 16:42 ` Gary Thomas
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-06-15 13:35 Gary Thomas
2015-06-15 13:58 ` Nikolay Dimitrov
2015-06-15 14:21 ` Martin Jansa
2015-06-15 17:41 ` Gary Thomas
2015-06-15 17:46 ` Martin Jansa
2015-06-15 19:33 ` Gary Thomas
2015-06-16 0:19 ` Gary Thomas
2015-06-16 8:37 ` Paul Eggleton
2015-06-16 10:47 ` Gary Thomas
2015-06-16 12:36 ` Paul Eggleton
2015-06-16 13:21 ` Gary Thomas
2015-06-16 13:46 ` Paul Eggleton
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