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On high core machines, in do_fetch, it is possible to DDoS your own machine.
A method to limit any arbitrary task type to a certain number of simultaneous
threads is needed. (Similar to how BB_NUMBER_THREADS works in the general
case.) The format of this new limitation is:
do_fetch[number_threads] = "2"
This should be set globally. If it is set in individual recipes it could
result in unpredictable behavior.
Note: a value for number_threads > BB_NUMBER_THREADS will have no effect.
(Bitbake rev: 055865047c63b9c3b213b47a1884924ce0adeda0)
Signed-off-by: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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: http://www.openembedded.org/
Bitbake plain documentation can be found under the doc directory or its integrated html version at the Yocto Project website: http://yoctoproject.org/documentation
Contributing
Please refer to http://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:
http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/bitbake-devel
Source code:
http://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/