On 25/08/2014 7:41 PM, Erik Joelsson wrote:

On 2014-08-25 02:23, David Holmes wrote:
On 22/08/2014 1:39 AM, Erik Joelsson wrote:
Hello Aleksey,

As I have tried to explain a couple of times now: The jdk8 build built
each repository in sequence (much like the jdk7 build did). Because of
this it made sense to add messages about which repository was being
built and measure the time each took. The new jdk9 build is not
repository oriented, but instead builds modules. To increase
concurrency, I dropped the sequential, non parallel, execution model at
the top level so there are a larger number of build targets being built
at the same time, based on finer grained dependencies. What I'm trying
to say here is that those Starting/Finished messages simply do not exist
anymore.

Can I flag again that getting timings for those parts of the build
that are still done in sequence is still very useful. I assume you are
not trying to concurrently build langtools and hotspot and jdk(+other
source based modules) ? I would like to see timings for hotspot build
and for images, profiles etc.

Actually, langtools, hotspot and jdk are all built concurrently. There
are several limitations, like the native libs in jdk have to wait for
hotspot, java compilation have to wait for the interrim javac. However,
there is nothing stopping java compilation to start while hotspot is
being compiled or from compiling java.logging (in jdk) while
jdk.compiler (in langtools) is being compiled.

Okay so combining this with what I just read about the "make clean foo" situation I see things are running with a much greater degree of concurrency and parallelism than I had thought. I'm not sure it is such a good idea though - there is such as thing as too much parallelism :) - and in particular when make is figuring out the parallelism to introduce for the top-level targets, does it take into account the parallelism that already exists in the hotspot build? And what concurrency level is being used to begin with?

The log file has become almost indecipherable in terms of trying to associate related lines of output; and build failures are taking much longer to actually halt the build which then adds to the problem of trying to find where the real error was. :( (Yes I can decrease the concurrency in my own builds, but I'm often having to diagnose what has happened in other people's builds.)

Cheers,
David
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 From what I can see, there are very few things happening in sequence,
or rather there is a complex graph of things happening in sequence,
concurrently. Sure, I can see what can be done about timings anyway.

/Erik

Thanks,
David

I can understand people wanting more details on what took how much time
to build, but the timings need to make sense to be useful. If target A
starts executing, and then the last recipe of that target gets to wait
while all of target B gets executed, then the time for target A will
look much longer than it actually was. Perhaps this information would
still be useful, I doubt it, but could perhaps be swayed by good
arguments. We would also need to figure out a proper granularity for
grouping timings, and if it should be grouped by modules or by tasks.

I think that verbosity at the default warn level is correct in not
printing more than it currently does. If something was recompiled, you
would see messages about it. I can't help but wonder why you need more
text to say "nothing happened"? This sounds like an issue with not
trusting the build (which I can identify with, it's new so is likely to
be buggy). When setting LOG=info, I agree that there should be more
status messages about which targets were actually considered. The step
up to LOG=debug prints far too much to be useful in that regard. Again,
we need to think about the granularity of the targets we would want to
print info about here, and if it should be module or task oriented.

/Erik

On 2014-08-21 17:02, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
Hi,

The recent update of jdk9/jdk9 build scripts had significantly
deteriorated the usability of the build summary. This what was printed
before:

------- 8<
-------------------------------------------------------------

Building OpenJDK for target 'default' in configuration
'linux-x86_64-normal-server-release'

## Starting langtools
## Finished langtools (build time 00:00:00)

## Starting hotspot
## Finished hotspot (build time 00:00:00)

## Starting corba
## Finished corba (build time 00:00:00)

## Starting jaxp
## Finished jaxp (build time 00:00:01)

## Starting jaxws
## Finished jaxws (build time 00:00:00)

## Starting jdk
## Finished jdk (build time 00:00:01)

----- Build times -------
Start 2014-08-21 18:35:48
End   2014-08-21 18:35:50
00:00:00 corba
00:00:00 hotspot
00:00:01 jaxp
00:00:00 jaxws
00:00:01 jdk
00:00:00 langtools
00:00:02 TOTAL
-------------------------
Finished building OpenJDK for target 'default'

------- 8<
-------------------------------------------------------------

...and this is what's printed now:

------- 8<
-------------------------------------------------------------

Running make as '/usr/bin/make -s VERBOSE=-s LOG_LEVEL=warn -R -I
/home/shade/trunks/mb-try/make/common -s
SPEC=/home/shade/trunks/mb-try//build/linux-x86_64-normal-server-release/spec.gmk'


Building OpenJDK for target 'default' in configuration
'linux-x86_64-normal-server-release'

----- Build times -------
Start 2014-08-21 18:59:07
End   2014-08-21 18:59:09

00:00:02 TOTAL
-------------------------

Finished building OpenJDK for target 'default'

------- 8<
-------------------------------------------------------------

I have no idea whether the modules of interest were actually built, and
this disables me from checking whether the build system picked up my
previous changes. Can we please have the "Starting"/"Finishing" and the
verbose summary back?

Thanks,
-Aleksey.



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