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poky/bitbake
Aryaman Gupta 2e193726bd bitbake: bitbake: runqueue: add memory pressure regulation
Prevent new tasks from being scheduled if the memory pressure is above
a certain threshold, specified through the "BB_MAX_PRESSURE_MEMORY"
variable in the conf/local.conf file. This is an extension to the
following commit and hence regulates pressure in the same way:
   48a6d84de1 bitbake: runqueue: add cpu/io pressure regulation

Memory pressure is experienced when time is spent swapping, refaulting
pages from the page cache or performing direct reclaim. This is why
memory pressure is rarely seen but might be useful as a last resort to
prevent OOM errors.

(Bitbake rev: 44c395434c7be8dab968630a610c8807f512920c)

(Bitbake rev: 4ada86cb6b05e6e3aabc8015a6e73aacb14a3388)

Signed-off-by: Aryaman Gupta <aryaman.gupta@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Macleod <Randy.Macleod@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-08-23 15:55:45 +01:00
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2010-08-04 16:12:39 +01:00

Bitbake

BitBake is a generic task execution engine that allows shell and Python tasks to be run efficiently and in parallel while working within complex inter-task dependency constraints. One of BitBake's main users, OpenEmbedded, takes this core and builds embedded Linux software stacks using a task-oriented approach.

For information about Bitbake, see the OpenEmbedded website: https://www.openembedded.org/

Bitbake plain documentation can be found under the doc directory or its integrated html version at the Yocto Project website: https://docs.yoctoproject.org

Contributing

Please refer to https://www.openembedded.org/wiki/How_to_submit_a_patch_to_OpenEmbedded for guidelines on how to submit patches, just note that the latter documentation is intended for OpenEmbedded (and its core) not bitbake patches (bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org) but in general main guidelines apply. Once the commit(s) have been created, the way to send the patch is through git-send-email. For example, to send the last commit (HEAD) on current branch, type:

git send-email -M -1 --to bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org

Mailing list:

https://lists.openembedded.org/g/bitbake-devel

Source code:

https://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/

Testing:

Bitbake has a testsuite located in lib/bb/tests/ whichs aim to try and prevent regressions. You can run this with "bitbake-selftest". In particular the fetcher is well covered since it has so many corner cases. The datastore has many tests too. Testing with the testsuite is recommended before submitting patches, particularly to the fetcher and datastore. We also appreciate new test cases and may require them for more obscure issues.