[PATCH] binutils: Enable threaded linking with gold

[PATCH] binutils: Enable threaded linking with gold

[Khem Raj]

This options will let gold spawn multiple
threads for linking and speeding up linking
on multicore build hosts.

Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
---
 meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.22.inc |    2 +-
 meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils.inc      |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.22.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.22.inc
index e3e179d..17950a2 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.22.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.22.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-PR = "r13"
+PR = "r14"
 
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM="\
     file://src-release;endline=17;md5=4830a9ef968f3b18dd5e9f2c00db2d35\
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils.inc
index cd923bd..ee748a4 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils.inc
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ B = "${S}/build.${HOST_SYS}.${TARGET_SYS}"
 EXTRA_OECONF = "--program-prefix=${TARGET_PREFIX} \
                 --disable-werror \
 		--enable-plugins \
-		${@base_contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'ld-is-gold', '--enable-gold=default', '', d)} \
+		${@base_contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'ld-is-gold', '--enable-gold=default --enable-threads', '', d)} \
                 ${@base_contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'multiarch', '--enable-64-bit-bfd', '', d)}"
 
 # This is necessary due to a bug in the binutils Makefiles
-- 
1.7.9.5

Re: [PATCH] binutils: Enable threaded linking with gold

[Burton, Ross]

Hi Khem,

On 7 August 2012 22:26, Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com> wrote:
> This options will let gold spawn multiple
> threads for linking and speeding up linking
> on multicore build hosts.

I turned on the DISTRO_FEATURE ld-is-gold and rebuild my toolchain and
then webkit-gtk, but there was no improvement in build time (I'm
attributing a 20s difference in build time to noise considering the
build was 24 minutes).  Is there something else I need to change, as I
was expecting WebKit would be a good winner with this.

Ross

Re: [PATCH] binutils: Enable threaded linking with gold

[Khem Raj]

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton@intel.com> wrote:
> Hi Khem,
>
> On 7 August 2012 22:26, Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This options will let gold spawn multiple
>> threads for linking and speeding up linking
>> on multicore build hosts.
>
> I turned on the DISTRO_FEATURE ld-is-gold and rebuild my toolchain and
> then webkit-gtk, but there was no improvement in build time (I'm
> attributing a 20s difference in build time to noise considering the
> build was 24 minutes).  Is there something else I need to change, as I
> was expecting WebKit would be a good winner with this.
>

hmm, yes I would think so too. My experiments were on a i386 box with
2G RAM I see considerable improvement on app linked with boost that I
tried. Can you recheck if ld is pointing to gold in
the cross toolchain install ?

> Ross
>
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