Re: [PATCH] tests/avocado: using several workers while testing

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 02:37:43PM +0000, bakulinm@ispras.ru wrote:
> Valid point, thank you.
> 
> I can see three options what to do:
> e1) Ignore older version of make and assume that 4.2 or newer is used
> (4.1 is in Ubuntu 18.04 that is no longer supported as a build platform
> as I was told; 20.04 has 4.2). In this case make provides number of
> jobs in $MAKEFLAGS and this makes getting it trivial. In case of an
> older make only two options will be available: (default) single-threaded,
> and using all cores.

> Which one should I choose?

Ignore older make. Ubuntu 18.04 is not a platform we target anymore,
so we shouldn't be writing compat code for handling it, and in any
case degrading to single threaded or all-cores is fine fallback IMHO.

With regards,
Daniel
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