[yocto] Bitbake and task offloading onto multiple cloud-based servers

[Tom Zanussi]

On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 11:58 +0000, Alex J Lennon wrote:
> > In the 1.1 timeframe I proposed something similar for a demo/research
> > project - I'll just copy the proposal verbatim below in case any of the
> > ideas could be of any value.  
> 
> Very interesting Tom. Thanks for your thoughts.
> 
> 
> > if throwing a
> > 40-processor system at a build doesn't really help much it's not likely
> > to be of much help either to distribute the individual pieces out to the
> > 'cloud'.
> 
> Are there any figures for build time versus increase in processor cores?
> It would be interesting to see what the immediate performance gain is
> for a build with a low number of additional cores and then where it tops
> out?

These threads have some hard data:

https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/poky/2011-July/006802.html
https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2012-April/008293.html

Some of which is summarized here:

https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Build_Performance

Other people may have pointers to more data or summaries..

Tom

> 
> > The whole
> > process is completely peer-to-peer with no single node in charge - in
> > that context, a more appropriate name for it might be 'BuildTorrent'.
> 
> A "BuildTorrent". I like it!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alex
>