summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/poky/documentation/ref-manual/terms.rst
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorjmbills <jason.m.bills@intel.com>2022-01-18 21:55:05 +0300
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2022-01-18 21:55:05 +0300
commit7cf0c1cd0ce835d1833509b7b911e8a97380278b (patch)
tree0b45c3beaa9874facc4ed1a2395a31e42be0135d /poky/documentation/ref-manual/terms.rst
parent4dac5fcd49b5e2de1074f1363775ec0f19041072 (diff)
parent1fc0d70f658da30091bcd49f9bf29aecd6b99ba7 (diff)
downloadopenbmc-7cf0c1cd0ce835d1833509b7b911e8a97380278b.tar.xz
Merge pull request #76 from Intel-BMC/update1-0.86
Update
Diffstat (limited to 'poky/documentation/ref-manual/terms.rst')
-rw-r--r--poky/documentation/ref-manual/terms.rst8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/poky/documentation/ref-manual/terms.rst b/poky/documentation/ref-manual/terms.rst
index 32658051a..e5a7565df 100644
--- a/poky/documentation/ref-manual/terms.rst
+++ b/poky/documentation/ref-manual/terms.rst
@@ -367,10 +367,16 @@ universal, the list includes them just in case:
section in the Yocto Project Overview and Concepts Manual.
:term:`Task`
- A unit of execution for BitBake (e.g.
+ A per-recipe unit of execution for BitBake (e.g.
:ref:`ref-tasks-compile`,
:ref:`ref-tasks-fetch`,
:ref:`ref-tasks-patch`, and so forth).
+ One of the major benefits of the build system is that, since each
+ recipe will typically spawn the execution of numerous tasks,
+ it is entirely possible that many tasks can execute in parallel,
+ either tasks from separate recipes or independent tasks within
+ the same recipe, potentially up to the parallelism of your
+ build system.
:term:`Toaster`
A web interface to the Yocto Project's :term:`OpenEmbedded Build System`.