perf(esp32): cut SDK -I fan-out from 385 dirs to PlatformIO's curated list - #1543
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… list ESP32-S3 cold builds pass 385 `-I` directories where PlatformIO passes 199. Same toolchain, same flags — fbuild even omits pio's `-ggdb`. Swapping only the include list moves a single translation unit ~41% (0.652s -> 0.462s, min of 3, one TU, same g++ invocation both sides), and the whole 47-TU build pays it, so this is the largest single term in the cold-build gap reported in #1537. The fan-out comes from `get_sdk_include_dirs`'s fallback: when the SDK has no `flags/includes` (every arduino-esp32 2.x layout, e.g. the `espressif32@6.13.0` fixture, whose SDK lives at `tools/sdk/<mcu>`), it reconstructs the list by scanning `include/` to a fixed depth. That scan is wrong in both directions: - too shallow: it misses leaves PlatformIO passes, so `bt/common/api/include/api`, `bt/host/bluedroid/api/include/api` and `lwip/port/esp32/include/arch` are absent and any header reached through them fails to resolve; - too greedy: it emits ~220 dirs PlatformIO never passes, including per-chip dirs for *other* chips (`soc/esp32`, `port/soc/esp32c3`, `esp_hw_pm/include/esp32s2`), component test dirs (`json/cJSON/tests`) and an `esp-dsp` fan-out. Every extra `-I` costs a failed path lookup on every unresolved `#include`, and these paths are deep, so the cost is real per TU. Those framework layouts do ship an authoritative list: the SCons builder PlatformIO itself uses for that exact framework version, `tools/platformio-build-<mcu>.py`, whose `CPPPATH` block is the include list in PlatformIO's order. Parse it and use it, keeping the existing `flags/includes` path for the newer layout and the tree scan as the last resort. A parse that yields fewer than 20 entries is treated as a failure rather than trusted, so an upstream format change degrades to today's behaviour instead of silently truncating the include path. Entries computed from `env.BoardConfig()` (the flash/PSRAM variant dir, the core dir) are skipped; the caller already supplies those. Measured on bench/blink -e esp32s3: 385 -> 200 `-I` (PlatformIO: 199), with the previously-missing deep leaves now present, and the cold build compiles and links to the same firmware. Refs #1537
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughSDK include discovery now parses existing include paths from the PlatformIO builder script when the usual include data is unavailable. If the parsed list does not meet the minimum entry count, discovery retains the recursive tree-scan fallback. ChangesESP32 SDK include discovery
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- Around line 83-88: In the directory-listing function, deduplicate `dirs` with
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Both lists resolve the standard So the behavioural delta is: one extra Verified: Worth a reviewer's eye precisely because it is a build-output change, not a pure refactor. |
…uild) (#1544) Cache-key construction normalizes every path-bearing compiler flag of every translation unit. `path_arg_for_compile_cwd` canonicalizes *both* the path and the compile cwd on each call, so building the ESP32-S3 framework-core cache key performs, per build: 385 include dirs x 46 core sources x 2 (path + cwd) = ~35,000 realpath(2) The cwd is the same value in all 35,420 calls and the include dirs are the same 385 for every source, so ~386 distinct resolutions are repeated 35,000 times. Measured on bench/blink -e esp32s3 (16-core Linux), this is the bulk of the unaccounted time between the `framework-libs cache` and `framework core cache` log lines, where no perf phase is open: it is cache-state independent and identical on warm and cold builds. `canonicalize_lexical` now memoizes its **successful `realpath` results only**. The parent-plus-filename fallback is deliberately not memoized: that is the branch answering for paths that do not exist yet, and caching it would keep reporting a directory as missing for the rest of the process, so a not-yet-created include dir would never resolve. A memo hit is therefore always a path that existed and was resolved once. The map is capped at 8192 entries so a long-lived daemon cannot grow it without bound. Fixing this at `canonicalize_lexical` rather than at the ESP32 call site also covers the other sites that build signatures the same way — `refresh_command_hashes` and `needs_rebuild_with_signature` run the same per-flag normalization. Measured (3 interleaved cold trials each, median, true cache misses): wall 5.96s -> 4.81s unphased 709ms -> 218ms The saving overlaps PR #1543 (fewer include dirs means fewer realpath calls too): on top of that change it is a further 3.97s -> 3.79s. The core-cache key is unchanged by this commit (`41b106e21c2b` before and after), which is the point: memoizing a pure function must not move the cache. Refs #1537
`parse_pio_cpppath` counted parsed entries before deduplicating them, so a script that repeated one entry enough times would clear `MIN_PIO_CPPPATH_ENTRIES` and then dedupe down to a single-directory include path - exactly the silent truncation that threshold exists to prevent. Dedupe first, then apply the threshold, so the count that decides trust is the number of distinct directories. Adds a regression test that pads the CPPPATH block with 30 copies of one entry and asserts the tree-scan fallback runs instead.
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Fixed in 85a5039 — dedupe now runs before the threshold, so the count that decides trust is distinct paths. Added a regression test that pads the CPPPATH block with 30 copies of one entry and asserts the tree-scan fallback runs. Re-verified end-to-end after the change: 200 |
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Problem
Part of #1537 (cause 1). ESP32-S3 cold builds pass 385
-Idirectories; PlatformIO passes 199 for the same framework, same toolchain, same flags — fbuild even omits pio's-ggdb, which should make it faster.Reproduced locally on
bench/blink -e esp32s3(16-core Linux,espressif32@6.13.0, framework3.20017.241212+sha.dcc1105b):-Icount~41% per translation unit, paid by all 47 TUs.
Root cause
get_sdk_include_dirsreadsflags/includeswhen the SDK has one. The arduino-esp32 2.x layout used by this fixture has no such file (its SDK istools/sdk/<mcu>, nottools/esp32-arduino-libs/<mcu>), so it falls back to reconstructing the list by scanninginclude/to a fixed depth. That scan is wrong in both directions:bt/common/api/include/api,bt/host/bluedroid/api/include/apiandlwip/port/esp32/include/archare absent today, so any header reached through them does not resolve. This is a latent correctness bug, not only a perf one.soc/esp32,esp_system/port/soc/esp32c3,esp_hw_pm/include/esp32s2,idf_test/include/esp32h2), component test dirs (json/cJSON/tests), and anesp-dspfan-out.Every extra
-Icosts a failed path lookup on every unresolved#include, and these SDK paths are deep, so the cost is real per TU.Fix
Those framework layouts do ship an authoritative list: the SCons builder PlatformIO itself uses for that exact framework version,
tools/platformio-build-<mcu>.py. ItsCPPPATHblock is the include list, in PlatformIO's order — every entry a literaljoin(FRAMEWORK_DIR, "...").Parse it and use it, keeping the existing
flags/includespath for the newer layout and the tree scan as the last resort. Entries computed fromenv.BoardConfig()(the flash/PSRAM variant dir, the core dir) are skipped, since the caller already supplies those.A parse yielding fewer than 20 entries is treated as a failure, not trusted, so an upstream format change degrades to today's behaviour rather than silently truncating the include path.
Verification
bench/blink -e esp32s3: 385 → 200-I(PlatformIO: 199), with the previously-missing deep leaves now present, and the cold build compiles and links to the same firmware.soldr cargo test -p fbuild-library esp32_framework— 36 passed.fbuild-pythonlibpython3.13.so.1.0loader error on this box (system Python is 3.14), unrelated to this change.soldr cargo clippy --workspace --all-targetsclean;soldr cargo fmt --allapplied.Refs #1537
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