classes/populate_sdk_base: Implement xz compression options

Building an SDK on a machine with 8GB RAM resulted in excessive swapping
due to the xz compressor using ~20GB of memory. This is because xz is
being called with "-T 0 -9".

To allow tuning the compression versus memory usage, introduce a variable
named SDK_XZ_OPTIONS that defaults to a more sane default:
SDK_XZ_OPTIONS ?= "${XZ_DEFAULTS} ${SDK_XZ_COMPRESSION_LEVEL}"
The use of XZ_DEFAULTS fixes the excessive memory usage.
The SDK_XZ_COMPRESSION_LEVEL variable allows overriding the speed vs
compression. In an office or development environment the extra time
spent on compressing a few percent more is just not worth it.

Signed-off-by: Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/meta/classes/populate_sdk_base.bbclass b/meta/classes/populate_sdk_base.bbclass
index 3248bb01c3a7aee67f23f24a80978bcc0b323b14..ef0d8bef5856b9c4a567446386699450bc74f370 100644 (file)
--- a/meta/classes/populate_sdk_base.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/populate_sdk_base.bbclass
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ TOOLCHAIN_OUTPUTNAME ?= "${SDK_NAME}-toolchain-${SDK_VERSION}"
 
 # Default archived SDK's suffix
 SDK_ARCHIVE_TYPE ?= "tar.xz"
+SDK_XZ_COMPRESSION_LEVEL ?= "-9"
+SDK_XZ_OPTIONS ?= "${XZ_DEFAULTS} ${SDK_XZ_COMPRESSION_LEVEL}"
 
 # To support different sdk type according to SDK_ARCHIVE_TYPE, now support zip and tar.xz
 python () {
@@ -59,7 +61,7 @@ python () {
        d.setVar('SDK_ARCHIVE_CMD', 'cd ${SDK_OUTPUT}/${SDKPATH}; zip -r ${SDKDEPLOYDIR}/${TOOLCHAIN_OUTPUTNAME}.${SDK_ARCHIVE_TYPE} .')
     else:
        d.setVar('SDK_ARCHIVE_DEPENDS', 'xz-native')
-       d.setVar('SDK_ARCHIVE_CMD', 'cd ${SDK_OUTPUT}/${SDKPATH}; tar ${SDKTAROPTS} -cf - . | xz -T 0 -9 > ${SDKDEPLOYDIR}/${TOOLCHAIN_OUTPUTNAME}.${SDK_ARCHIVE_TYPE}')
+       d.setVar('SDK_ARCHIVE_CMD', 'cd ${SDK_OUTPUT}/${SDKPATH}; tar ${SDKTAROPTS} -cf - . | xz ${SDK_XZ_OPTIONS} > ${SDKDEPLOYDIR}/${TOOLCHAIN_OUTPUTNAME}.${SDK_ARCHIVE_TYPE}')
 }
 
 SDK_RDEPENDS = "${TOOLCHAIN_TARGET_TASK} ${TOOLCHAIN_HOST_TASK}"