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From: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] validate_abi: build faster by augmenting
 make with job count
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 13:48:49 -0400
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On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 07:40:49PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2016-07-20 13:09, Neil Horman:
> > From: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>
> > 
> > John Mcnamara and I were discussing enhacing the validate_abi script to build
> > the dpdk tree faster with multiple jobs.  Theres no reason not to do it, so this
> > implements that requirement.  It uses a MAKE_JOBS variable that can be set by
> > the user to limit the job count.  By default the job count is set to the number
> > of online cpus.
> 
> Please could you use the variable name DPDK_MAKE_JOBS?
> This name is already used in scripts/test-build.sh.
> 
Sure

> > +if [ -z "$MAKE_JOBS" ]
> > +then
> > +	# This counts the number of cpus on the system
> > +	MAKE_JOBS=`lscpu -p=cpu | grep -v "#" | wc -l`
> > +fi
> 
> Is lscpu common enough?
> 
I'm not sure how to answer that.  lscpu is part of the util-linux package, which
is part of any base install.  Theres a variant for BSD, but I'm not sure how
common it is there.
Neil

> Another acceptable default would be just "-j" without any number.
> It would make the number of jobs unlimited.