bitbake: server/process, server/xmlrpc, runqueue: Use select.select() on fds, not time.sleep()

The existing backend server implementations were inefficient since they
were sleeping for the full length of the timeouts rather than being woken when
there was data ready for them. It was assumed they would wake and perhaps did
when we forked processes directory but that is no longer the case.

This updates both the process and xmlrpc backends to wait using select(). This
does mean we need to pass the file descriptors to wait on from the internals
who know which these file descriptors are but this is a logical improvement.

Tests of a pathaolgical load on the process server of ~420 rapid tasks
executed on a server with BB_NUMBER_THREAD=48  went from a wall clock
measurement of the overall command execution time of 75s to a much more
reasonable 24s.

(Bitbake rev: 9bee497960889d9baa0a4284d79a384b18a8e826)

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/bitbake/lib/bb/runqueue.py b/bitbake/lib/bb/runqueue.py
index 075c84985a..197308fd9d 100644
--- a/bitbake/lib/bb/runqueue.py
+++ b/bitbake/lib/bb/runqueue.py
@@ -895,6 +895,14 @@ class RunQueue:
         if self.fakeworkerpipe:
             self.fakeworkerpipe.read()
 
+    def active_fds(self):
+        fds = []
+        if self.workerpipe:
+            fds.append(self.workerpipe.input)
+        if self.fakeworkerpipe:
+            fds.append(self.fakeworkerpipe.input)
+        return fds
+
     def check_stamp_task(self, task, taskname = None, recurse = False, cache = None):
         def get_timestamp(f):
             try:
@@ -972,7 +980,7 @@ class RunQueue:
         (if the abort on failure configuration option isn't set)
         """
 
-        retval = 0.5
+        retval = True
 
         if self.state is runQueuePrepare:
             self.rqexe = RunQueueExecuteDummy(self)
@@ -1375,7 +1383,7 @@ class RunQueueExecuteTasks(RunQueueExecute):
 
         if self.stats.active > 0:
             self.rq.read_workers()
-            return 0.5
+            return self.rq.active_fds()
 
         if len(self.failed_fnids) != 0:
             self.rq.state = runQueueFailed