docs: jobserver: do some documentation improvements

Make Sphinx handle better jobserver class documentation

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <18a9c1406bdead680e3ee5768c97ae8b2138e8ea.1768838938.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab 2026-01-19 17:23:26 +01:00 committed by Jonathan Corbet
parent 7a66b29dc5
commit 8b85f614f3
1 changed files with 12 additions and 8 deletions

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@ -11,20 +11,23 @@ Interacts with the POSIX jobserver during the Kernel build time.
A "normal" jobserver task, like the one initiated by a make subrocess would do:
- open read/write file descriptors to communicate with the job server;
- ask for one slot by calling:
- ask for one slot by calling::
claim = os.read(reader, 1)
- when the job finshes, call:
- when the job finshes, call::
os.write(writer, b"+") # os.write(writer, claim)
Here, the goal is different: This script aims to get the remaining number
of slots available, using all of them to run a command which handle tasks in
parallel. To to that, it has a loop that ends only after there are no
slots left. It then increments the number by one, in order to allow a
call equivalent to make -j$((claim+1)), e.g. having a parent make creating
call equivalent to ``make -j$((claim+1))``, e.g. having a parent make creating
$claim child to do the actual work.
The end goal here is to keep the total number of build tasks under the
limit established by the initial make -j$n_proc call.
limit established by the initial ``make -j$n_proc`` call.
See:
https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/POSIX-Jobserver.html#POSIX-Jobserver
@ -40,13 +43,14 @@ class JobserverExec:
Claim all slots from make using POSIX Jobserver.
The main methods here are:
- open(): reserves all slots;
- close(): method returns all used slots back to make;
- run(): executes a command setting PARALLELISM=<available slots jobs + 1>
- run(): executes a command setting PARALLELISM=<available slots jobs + 1>.
"""
def __init__(self):
"""Initialize internal vars"""
"""Initialize internal vars."""
self.claim = 0
self.jobs = b""
self.reader = None
@ -54,7 +58,7 @@ class JobserverExec:
self.is_open = False
def open(self):
"""Reserve all available slots to be claimed later on"""
"""Reserve all available slots to be claimed later on."""
if self.is_open:
return
@ -118,7 +122,7 @@ class JobserverExec:
self.is_open = True
def close(self):
"""Return all reserved slots to Jobserver"""
"""Return all reserved slots to Jobserver."""
if not self.is_open:
return