package/openblas: allow disabling multithreading
Buildroot would automatically enable multithreading in OpenBLAS if the architecture supports it. However, one may want to avoid OpenBLAS creating threads itself and configure single-threaded operation. To accommodate this use case, add a config option for multithreading. When multithreading is disabled but OpenBLAS functions are called in the same application by multiple threads, then locking is mandatory. The USE_LOCKING flag was added in version 0.3.7 with following release note: a new option USE_LOCKING was added to ensure thread safety when OpenBLAS itself is built without multithreading but will be called from multiple threads. However, if one knows that OpenBLAS will only be called from single-threaded applications, then passing USE_LOCKING is not necessary, so make it a config option too. When multithreading is enabled, locking is implicitly enabled inside openblas, so only provide the locking option when multithreading is disabled. Signed-off-by:Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire@nokia.com> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
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