package: Add cachedpath optimisation

Currently, various standard library operations like os.walk(),
os.path.isdir() and os.path.islink() each call stat or lstat which
involves a syscall into the kernel. There is no caching since they could
conceivably have changed on disk. The result is that for something like
the do_package task of the kernel we're spending over two minutes making
868,000 individual stat calls for 23,000 files. This is suboptimal.

This patch adds lib/oe/cachedpath.py which are a set of replacement
functions for these operations which use cached stat data rather than
hitting the kernel each time. It gives a nice performance improvement
halving the build time of the kernel do_package.

(From OE-Core rev: 556dee0c4d6d8a87c0cddbd2f60fe5917d009f18)

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

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/base.bbclass b/meta/classes/base.bbclass
index 4ec1eda6bc..5fe9a84efe 100644
--- a/meta/classes/base.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/base.bbclass
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ inherit utility-tasks
 inherit metadata_scm
 inherit logging
 
-OE_IMPORTS += "os sys time oe.path oe.utils oe.data oe.package oe.packagegroup oe.sstatesig oe.lsb"
+OE_IMPORTS += "os sys time oe.path oe.utils oe.data oe.package oe.packagegroup oe.sstatesig oe.lsb oe.cachedpath"
 OE_IMPORTS[type] = "list"
 
 def oe_import(d):