genboardscfg: limit to 240 jobs

When genboardscfg.py is run on machines with 255 or more cores, the
process will consume more than 1024 file descriptors, which is a common
standard ulimit for user processes. As a consequence it will fail with a
lenghty Python trace, with the almost hidden message:
OSError: [Errno 24] Too many open files

It's somewhat questionable whether that level of parallelity is actually
useful for genboardscfg, so we limit the *default* number of jobs to the
safe number of 240, to avoid the problem.
If a user persists, she can still force a higher number via the -j
parameter - hopefully having raised the ulimit accordingly beforehand.

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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Andre Przywara 2022-01-11 15:34:50 +00:00 committed by Simon Glass
parent 880dbc5f80
commit 5ecdd529ae

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@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ def main():
# Add options here
parser.add_option('-f', '--force', action="store_true", default=False,
help='regenerate the output even if it is new')
parser.add_option('-j', '--jobs', type='int', default=cpu_count,
parser.add_option('-j', '--jobs', type='int', default=min(cpu_count, 240),
help='the number of jobs to run simultaneously')
parser.add_option('-o', '--output', default=OUTPUT_FILE,
help='output file [default=%s]' % OUTPUT_FILE)