[PATCH v2 14/14] buildman: Add a way to limit the number of buildmans

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Mon Jul 15 15:31:25 CEST 2024


Buildman uses all available CPUs by default, so running more than one or
two concurrent processes is not normally useful.

However in some CI cases we want to be able to run several jobs at once
to save time. For example, in a lab situation we may want to run a test
on 20 boards at a time, since only the build step actually takes much
CPU.

Add an option which allows such a limit. When buildman starts up, it
waits until the number of running processes goes below the limit, then
claims a spot in the list. The list is maintained with a temporary file.

Note that the temp file is user-specific, since it is hard to create a
locked temporary file which can be accessed by any user. In most cases,
only one user is running jobs on a machine, so this should not matter.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
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Changes in v2:
- Move the binman assume-size feature into this series

 tools/buildman/buildman.rst    |   5 ++
 tools/buildman/cmdline.py      |   2 +
 tools/buildman/control.py      | 140 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 tools/buildman/pyproject.toml  |   6 +-
 tools/buildman/test.py         | 121 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 tools/u_boot_pylib/terminal.py |   7 +-
 6 files changed, 277 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Applied to u-boot-dm, thanks!


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