From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cpanel8.indieserve.net (cpanel8.indieserve.net [199.212.143.3]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.web11.21683.1630932274743639591 for ; Mon, 06 Sep 2021 05:44:35 -0700 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=missing; spf=pass (domain: crashcourse.ca, ip: 199.212.143.3, mailfrom: rpjday@crashcourse.ca) Received: from cpeac202e043973-cmac202e043970.sdns.net.rogers.com ([174.114.107.13]:49758 helo=fedora) by cpanel8.indieserve.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1mNDzF-0006Pd-Ex for docs@lists.yoctoproject.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2021 08:44:33 -0400 Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2021 08:44:30 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" To: YP docs mailing list Subject: [PATCH] ref-manual: add potential of parallelism to defn of "Task" Message-ID: <2cf272e-4b96-e1ae-c692-4a1ee6b8736e@crashcourse.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cpanel8.indieserve.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.yoctoproject.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: cpanel8.indieserve.net: authenticated_id: rpjday+crashcourse.ca/only user confirmed/virtual account not confirmed X-Authenticated-Sender: cpanel8.indieserve.net: rpjday@crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Emphasize that tasks can be done in parallel. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day --- diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/terms.rst b/documentation/ref-manual/terms.rst index 32658051a..1a1f8dbee 100644 --- a/documentation/ref-manual/terms.rst +++ b/documentation/ref-manual/terms.rst @@ -367,10 +367,16 @@ universal, the list includes them just in case: section in the Yocto Project Overview and Concepts Manual. :term:`Task` - A unit of execution for BitBake (e.g. + A per-recipe unit of execution for BitBake (e.g. :ref:`ref-tasks-compile`, :ref:`ref-tasks-fetch`, :ref:`ref-tasks-patch`, and so forth). + One of the major benefits of the build system is that, since each + recipe will typically spawn the execution of numerous tasks, it is + entirely possible that many tasks can execute in parallel, with + the fetch task of one recipe being done simultaneously with the + build task of another, and so forth, potentially up to the + parallelism limit of your build system. :term:`Toaster` A web interface to the Yocto Project's :term:`OpenEmbedded Build System`. -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================