On 05/31/17 06:57, Gao, Liming wrote: > Hi All, > I would like to add new branch BaseToolsOpt in edk2-staging for BaseTools > build performance optimization. Here is its Readme.MD. Please help review. > > Readme.MD: > This branch is used to optimize BaseTools build performance. It bases on edk2 > repo UDK2017 branch. > > The branch owner: > Gao, Liming <liming....@intel.com> > Zhu, Yonghong <yonghong....@intel.com> > > ## Feature Introduction > BaseTools supports more and more features. They will take more build time. To > reduce build overhead, some points have been > identified to be optimized. POC code will be added in this branch for > evaluation. > 1) Enable the multiple thread in GenFds phase. > 2) Support to merge multiple drivers into one. It should save the link time. > But, it doesn't save much in the multiple build. > Besides, this feature can save the image size when the image is not > compressed, such as PEI images. > 3) Reduce the extra copy actions in build process. > 4) Analyze cProfile data and enhance the parser logic. > https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42 > > ## Timeline > Target for 2017 Q3 > > ### NOTES > Most changes in this branch are BaseTools. To apply them, user needs to run > BaseTools > from sources. In Linux, BaseTools run from source. In Windows, BaseTools can > run from source. And, Reconfig option is also > required to apply new config settings in BaseTools\Conf. The step is like > below: > 1. enter into edk2 > 2. set PYTHON_HOME=C:\Python27 > 3. type edksetup.bat --nt32 Reconfig > 4. nmake -f BaseTools\Makefile > 5. type build command to build platform.
This looks very valuable to me. Another spot where "build" spends quite a bit of time is the initial metadata parsing. Perhaps there are some gains to be made there. I guess the profile data referenced under point (4) above, and in BZ#42, will help analyze that step. Thanks! Laszlo _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list edk2-devel@lists.01.org https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel
