[dts] [PATCH] meson compile: Improve compile times

[ohilyard at iol.unh.edu]

From: Owen Hilyard <ohilyard at iol.unh.edu>

Increased compile timeout
Removed workers parameter from ninja compilation command

After a review of CI metrics, we noticed that dts runtimes had increased
greatly over the last few months. A review of recent logs showed
timeouts for compiling dpdk. Upon review, we discovered that, if the
"dut_cores" parameter is not set in conf/crbs.cfg, then dts uses the
default value, which is a single core, as the core list. The number of cores
in this list was then used the number of workers for ninja. This causes DTS
to attempt to compile DPDK serially, resulting in greatly increased compile
times. The IOL's development machine saw a 30x compile speed increase from
the included changes.

Signed-off-by: Owen Hilyard <ohilyard at iol.unh.edu>
---
 framework/project_dpdk.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/framework/project_dpdk.py b/framework/project_dpdk.py
index 915c648f..af542a91 100644
--- a/framework/project_dpdk.py
+++ b/framework/project_dpdk.py
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ class DPDKdut(Dut):
         """
         Build DPDK source code on linux use meson
         """
-        build_time = 900
+        build_time = 1200
         target_info = target.split('-')
         arch = target_info[0]
         machine = target_info[1]
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ class DPDKdut(Dut):
                         toolchain, extra_options, options_config, default_library, target), "# ", build_time)
         assert ("FAILED" not in out), "meson setup failed ..."
 
-        out = self.send_expect("ninja -C %s -j %d" % (target, self.number_of_cores), "# ", build_time)
+        out = self.send_expect("ninja -C %s" % target, "# ", build_time)
         assert ("FAILED" not in out), "ninja complie failed ...\r\n %s" % out
 
         # copy kmod file to the folder same as make
-- 
2.27.0