From e6d27a9c0db828c1fa2854eddefaab757b1e8447 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniele Buono Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2021 09:23:26 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] gitlab-ci.yml: Allow custom # of parallel linkers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Define a new variable LD_JOBS, that can be used to select the maximum number of linking jobs to be executed in parallel. If the variable is not defined, maintain the default given by make -j Currently, make parallelism at build time is based on the number of cpus available. This doesn't work well with LTO at linking, because with LTO the linker has to load in memory all the intermediate object files for optimization. The end result is that, if the gitlab runner happens to run two linking processes at the same time, the job will fail with an out-of-memory error, This patch leverages the ability to maintain high parallelism at compile time, but limit the number of linkers executed in parallel. Signed-off-by: Daniele Buono Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé Message-Id: <20210304030948.9367-2-dbuono@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Message-Id: <20210305092328.31792-8-alex.bennee@linaro.org> --- .gitlab-ci.yml | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml index 8b6d495288..814f51873f 100644 --- a/.gitlab-ci.yml +++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml @@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ include: else ../configure --enable-werror $CONFIGURE_ARGS ; fi || { cat config.log meson-logs/meson-log.txt && exit 1; } + - if test -n "$LD_JOBS"; + then + meson configure . -Dbackend_max_links="$LD_JOBS" ; + fi || exit 1; - make -j"$JOBS" - if test -n "$MAKE_CHECK_ARGS"; then