From 2e09b9d8a3a4795000096bbe869f8365cb5d8f6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Robert P. J. Day" Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2021 10:00:14 -0400 Subject: ref-manual: add potential of parallelism to defn of "Task" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit (From yocto-docs rev: 2e80de272b987c70374a1758e71c5c1371054d1f) Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- documentation/ref-manual/terms.rst | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'documentation') diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/terms.rst b/documentation/ref-manual/terms.rst index 32658051a5..e5a7565df5 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, + either tasks from separate recipes or independent tasks within + the same recipe, potentially up to the parallelism of your + build system. :term:`Toaster` A web interface to the Yocto Project's :term:`OpenEmbedded Build System`. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf