Hi Christian, For the extra IO accesses for duplicated library, I plan to introduce the CopyFileOnChange() function to solve it. Below is the CopyFileOnChange() BZ, and I haven't sent its patch yet. The CopyFileOnChange() will ensure only once IO store/restore access for each library. To avoid duplicated library access is critical not only for the performance, but also for the writing data race in multi-threads. Basetool need CopyFileOnChange function to avoid cache file writing race in multi-thread build https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1894 Thanks Steven Shi Intel\SSG\FID\Firmware Infrastructure > -----Original Message----- > From: Rodriguez, Christian > Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2019 11:41 PM > To: Shi, Steven ; devel@edk2.groups.io > Cc: Gao, Liming ; Feng, Bob C > Subject: RE: [PATCH] BaseTools: Cannot store library cache of different arch > together > > The change looks good overall, but I'm concerned about the performance if > there are multiple of the same library used by different modules. In this case > the library will be copied once per arch per module. I'm not sure if it would > make a giant impact, but just something to think about because you would be > doing extra IO accesses for each duplicate library autogen. > > Possible suggestion: > Is it possible to change the hash to include the arch? Or you can store a > unique tuple pair like (lib.arch, lib) in the set to reduce the libraries being > copied to a unique subset. > > Thanks, > Christian > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Shi, Steven > >Sent: Monday, June 10, 2019 10:53 PM > >To: devel@edk2.groups.io > >Cc: Gao, Liming >; Feng, Bob C > >>; Rodriguez, Christian > >> > >Subject: [PATCH] BaseTools: Cannot store library cache of different arch > >together > > > >https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1895 > > > >Build cache cannot store cache for the same library modules in different arch > >together. E.g. Both the below IA32 and X64 arch BaseLib caches should exist > >after build Ovmf3264, but now only the one in X64 arch exist. > >The reason is the current Basetool use a set() to same all library AutoGen > >objects, but the different arch lib AutoGen objects have same __hash_ value > >which comes from the lib MetaFile(The path of module file): > > def __hash__(self): > > return hash(self.MetaFile) > > > >So the different arch lib AutoGen objects are duplicated one to the set() and > >only one can exist. This is why the Basetool can only store one arch cache for > >library. > >This patch avoid to use the set() as the container to save the library and > >module objects because the objects might have same __hash__ value. > > > >Cc: Liming Gao > > >Cc: Bob Feng > > >Cc: Christian Rodriguez > > >Signed-off-by: Steven Shi > > >--- > > BaseTools/Source/Python/build/build.py | 13 +++---------- > > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) > > > >diff --git a/BaseTools/Source/Python/build/build.py > >b/BaseTools/Source/Python/build/build.py > >index 0855d4561c..f7a79cbbab 100644 > >--- a/BaseTools/Source/Python/build/build.py > >+++ b/BaseTools/Source/Python/build/build.py > >@@ -2203,21 +2203,14 @@ class Build(): > > RemoveDirectory(os.path.dirname(GlobalData.gDatabasePath), True) > > > > def CreateAsBuiltInf(self): > >- all_lib_set = set() > >- all_mod_set = set() > > for Module in self.BuildModules: > > Module.CreateAsBuiltInf() > >- all_mod_set.add(Module) > >+ for lib in Module.LibraryAutoGenList: > >+ lib.CreateAsBuiltInf(True) > > for Module in self.HashSkipModules: > > Module.CreateAsBuiltInf(True) > >- all_mod_set.add(Module) > >- for Module in all_mod_set: > > for lib in Module.LibraryAutoGenList: > >- all_lib_set.add(lib) > >- for lib in all_lib_set: > >- lib.CreateAsBuiltInf(True) > >- all_lib_set.clear() > >- all_mod_set.clear() > >+ lib.CreateAsBuiltInf(True) > > self.BuildModules = [] > > self.HashSkipModules = [] > > ## Do some clean-up works when error occurred > >-- > >2.17.1.windows.2