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./configure probes take ages #8547

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nwf opened this issue Mar 29, 2019 · 4 comments
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./configure probes take ages #8547

nwf opened this issue Mar 29, 2019 · 4 comments
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Type: Building Indicates an issue related to building binaries Type: Feature Feature request or new feature

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@nwf
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nwf commented Mar 29, 2019

System information

Type Version/Name
Distribution Name Debian
Distribution Version Buster Alpha 5
Linux Kernel 4.19.0-4-powerpc64le
Architecture POWER 9
ZFS Version 0.7.12
SPL Version 0.7.12

Describe the problem you're observing

./configure probes to the linux kernel take several (nearly 10) seconds per probe, thanks to all the make and shell that gets spawned. It would be far better, IMHO, to launch a single, parallelisable compilation (using, e.g., make -k) of all possible probes, and then deduce the results afterwards.

Describe how to reproduce the problem

Type ./configure, go take a shower and make some tea.

@behlendorf behlendorf added the Type: Building Indicates an issue related to building binaries label Mar 29, 2019
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@nwf using make -k and running all the check in parallel is an interesting idea. It would be great if you could investigate this approach and determine if it's viable. No one more than myself would like to see this sped up.

@ahrens ahrens added the Type: Feature Feature request or new feature label Mar 29, 2019
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Harvie commented Apr 6, 2019

Yes. It's funny how it configures for 15 minutes and then compiles in 15 seconds...

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Harvie commented Oct 1, 2019

@behlendorf cool!

BTW are these checks there to check the ZFS code or the system that i am building at?

If it tests the ZFS code itself, then it can be done using some continuous integration system directly when pushed to git.

If it tests the build environment (eg. my laptop) i think these tests can be cached between builds as long as i do not upgrade my system, in which case i might just do make clean to run the checks again. So if only ZFS code changes, but my build environment stays the same, we might not need checking it again.

But i don't really know how this works, it's just idea.

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@Harvie caching the results for a specific kernel is definitely possible. I left that as possible future work. But what you'd need to do it include some unique kernel identifier in the build results. That would allow you to know if you need to rerun a given check.

jgallag88 pushed a commit to jgallag88/zfs that referenced this issue Dec 6, 2019
Reduce the time required for ./configure to perform the needed
KABI checks by allowing kbuild to compile multiple test cases in
parallel.  This was accomplished by splitting each test's source
code from the logic handling whether that code could be compiled
or not.

By introducing this split it's possible to minimize the number of
times kbuild needs to be invoked.  As importantly, it means all of
the tests can be built in parallel.  This does require a little extra
care since we expect some tests to fail, so the --keep-going (-k)
option must be provided otherwise some tests may not get compiled.
Furthermore, since a failure during the kbuild modpost phase will
result in an early exit; the final linking phase is limited to tests
which passed the initial compilation and produced an object file.

Once everything has been built the configure script proceeds as
previously.  The only significant difference is that it now merely
needs to test for the existence of a .ko file to determine the
result of a given test.  This vastly speeds up the entire process.

New test cases should use ZFS_LINUX_TEST_SRC to declare their test
source code and ZFS_LINUX_TEST_RESULT to check the result.  All of
the existing kernel-*.m4 files have been updated accordingly, see
config/kernel-current-time.m4 for a basic example.  The legacy
ZFS_LINUX_TRY_COMPILE macro has been kept to handle special cases
but it's use is not encouraged.

                  master (secs)   patched (secs)
                  -------------   ----------------
autogen.sh        61              68
configure         137             24  (~17% of current run time)
make -j $(nproc)  44              44
make rpms         287             150

Reviewed-by: Tony Hutter <hutter2@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes openzfs#8547 
Closes openzfs#9132
Closes openzfs#9341
tonyhutter pushed a commit to tonyhutter/zfs that referenced this issue Dec 26, 2019
Reduce the time required for ./configure to perform the needed
KABI checks by allowing kbuild to compile multiple test cases in
parallel.  This was accomplished by splitting each test's source
code from the logic handling whether that code could be compiled
or not.

By introducing this split it's possible to minimize the number of
times kbuild needs to be invoked.  As importantly, it means all of
the tests can be built in parallel.  This does require a little extra
care since we expect some tests to fail, so the --keep-going (-k)
option must be provided otherwise some tests may not get compiled.
Furthermore, since a failure during the kbuild modpost phase will
result in an early exit; the final linking phase is limited to tests
which passed the initial compilation and produced an object file.

Once everything has been built the configure script proceeds as
previously.  The only significant difference is that it now merely
needs to test for the existence of a .ko file to determine the
result of a given test.  This vastly speeds up the entire process.

New test cases should use ZFS_LINUX_TEST_SRC to declare their test
source code and ZFS_LINUX_TEST_RESULT to check the result.  All of
the existing kernel-*.m4 files have been updated accordingly, see
config/kernel-current-time.m4 for a basic example.  The legacy
ZFS_LINUX_TRY_COMPILE macro has been kept to handle special cases
but it's use is not encouraged.

                  master (secs)   patched (secs)
                  -------------   ----------------
autogen.sh        61              68
configure         137             24  (~17% of current run time)
make -j $(nproc)  44              44
make rpms         287             150

Reviewed-by: Tony Hutter <hutter2@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes openzfs#8547
Closes openzfs#9132
Closes openzfs#9341
Conflicts:
	Makefile.am
	config/kernel-fpu.m4
tonyhutter pushed a commit to tonyhutter/zfs that referenced this issue Dec 27, 2019
Reduce the time required for ./configure to perform the needed
KABI checks by allowing kbuild to compile multiple test cases in
parallel.  This was accomplished by splitting each test's source
code from the logic handling whether that code could be compiled
or not.

By introducing this split it's possible to minimize the number of
times kbuild needs to be invoked.  As importantly, it means all of
the tests can be built in parallel.  This does require a little extra
care since we expect some tests to fail, so the --keep-going (-k)
option must be provided otherwise some tests may not get compiled.
Furthermore, since a failure during the kbuild modpost phase will
result in an early exit; the final linking phase is limited to tests
which passed the initial compilation and produced an object file.

Once everything has been built the configure script proceeds as
previously.  The only significant difference is that it now merely
needs to test for the existence of a .ko file to determine the
result of a given test.  This vastly speeds up the entire process.

New test cases should use ZFS_LINUX_TEST_SRC to declare their test
source code and ZFS_LINUX_TEST_RESULT to check the result.  All of
the existing kernel-*.m4 files have been updated accordingly, see
config/kernel-current-time.m4 for a basic example.  The legacy
ZFS_LINUX_TRY_COMPILE macro has been kept to handle special cases
but it's use is not encouraged.

                  master (secs)   patched (secs)
                  -------------   ----------------
autogen.sh        61              68
configure         137             24  (~17% of current run time)
make -j $(nproc)  44              44
make rpms         287             150

Reviewed-by: Tony Hutter <hutter2@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes openzfs#8547
Closes openzfs#9132
Closes openzfs#9341
Conflicts:
	Makefile.am
	config/kernel-fpu.m4
stevijo pushed a commit to stevijo/zfs that referenced this issue Jan 12, 2020
Reduce the time required for ./configure to perform the needed
KABI checks by allowing kbuild to compile multiple test cases in
parallel.  This was accomplished by splitting each test's source
code from the logic handling whether that code could be compiled
or not.

By introducing this split it's possible to minimize the number of
times kbuild needs to be invoked.  As importantly, it means all of
the tests can be built in parallel.  This does require a little extra
care since we expect some tests to fail, so the --keep-going (-k)
option must be provided otherwise some tests may not get compiled.
Furthermore, since a failure during the kbuild modpost phase will
result in an early exit; the final linking phase is limited to tests
which passed the initial compilation and produced an object file.

Once everything has been built the configure script proceeds as
previously.  The only significant difference is that it now merely
needs to test for the existence of a .ko file to determine the
result of a given test.  This vastly speeds up the entire process.

New test cases should use ZFS_LINUX_TEST_SRC to declare their test
source code and ZFS_LINUX_TEST_RESULT to check the result.  All of
the existing kernel-*.m4 files have been updated accordingly, see
config/kernel-current-time.m4 for a basic example.  The legacy
ZFS_LINUX_TRY_COMPILE macro has been kept to handle special cases
but it's use is not encouraged.

                  master (secs)   patched (secs)
                  -------------   ----------------
autogen.sh        61              68
configure         137             24  (~17% of current run time)
make -j $(nproc)  44              44
make rpms         287             150

Reviewed-by: Tony Hutter <hutter2@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes openzfs#8547
Closes openzfs#9132
Closes openzfs#9341
(cherry picked from commit 608f874)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
tonyhutter pushed a commit that referenced this issue Jan 23, 2020
Reduce the time required for ./configure to perform the needed
KABI checks by allowing kbuild to compile multiple test cases in
parallel.  This was accomplished by splitting each test's source
code from the logic handling whether that code could be compiled
or not.

By introducing this split it's possible to minimize the number of
times kbuild needs to be invoked.  As importantly, it means all of
the tests can be built in parallel.  This does require a little extra
care since we expect some tests to fail, so the --keep-going (-k)
option must be provided otherwise some tests may not get compiled.
Furthermore, since a failure during the kbuild modpost phase will
result in an early exit; the final linking phase is limited to tests
which passed the initial compilation and produced an object file.

Once everything has been built the configure script proceeds as
previously.  The only significant difference is that it now merely
needs to test for the existence of a .ko file to determine the
result of a given test.  This vastly speeds up the entire process.

New test cases should use ZFS_LINUX_TEST_SRC to declare their test
source code and ZFS_LINUX_TEST_RESULT to check the result.  All of
the existing kernel-*.m4 files have been updated accordingly, see
config/kernel-current-time.m4 for a basic example.  The legacy
ZFS_LINUX_TRY_COMPILE macro has been kept to handle special cases
but it's use is not encouraged.

                  master (secs)   patched (secs)
                  -------------   ----------------
autogen.sh        61              68
configure         137             24  (~17% of current run time)
make -j $(nproc)  44              44
make rpms         287             150

Reviewed-by: Tony Hutter <hutter2@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #8547
Closes #9132
Closes #9341
Conflicts:
	Makefile.am
	config/kernel-fpu.m4
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