linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] docs: drop the version constraints for sphinx and dependencies

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Message-ID: <41f28393-0211-4448-8add-ad3c55d02210@oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:54:36 +0100
From: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...cle.com>
To: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@...il.com>,
        Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Akira Yokosawa
 <akiyks@...il.com>,
        Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] docs: drop the version constraints for sphinx and
 dependencies


On 18/03/2024 17:44, Donald Hunter wrote:
> With Sphinx 2.4.4 I always get timings in this ballpark:
> 
> % time make htmldocs
> ...
> real	4m5.417s
> user	17m0.379s
> sys	1m11.889s
> 
> With Sphinx 7.2.6 it's typically over 9 minutes:
> 
> % time make htmldocs
> ...
> real	9m0.533s
> user	15m38.397s
> sys	1m0.907s

Was this running 'make cleandocs' (or otherwise removing the output
directory) in between? Sphinx is known to be slower if you already have
an output directory with existing-but-obsolete data, I believe this is
the case even when switching from one Sphinx version to another. Akira
also wrote about the 7.x performance:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/6e4b66fe-dbb3-4149-ac7e-8ae333d6fc9d@gmail.com/

> I have an experimental fix that uses a dict for lookups. With the fix, I
> consistently get times in the sub 5 minute range:

Fantastic!

There is a github issue for the C++ domain but I believe it's the same
issue for both C and C++ domains:

https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/10966


Vegard