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