From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Panu Matilainen Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts: support any legal git revisions as abi validation range Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 15:44:29 +0200 Message-ID: <5660473D.10003@redhat.com> References: <2244682.HuU20AYBFi@xps13> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org To: Thomas Monjalon , "Mcnamara, John" Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 532592E81 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2015 14:44:32 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <2244682.HuU20AYBFi@xps13> List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On 12/03/2015 03:28 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 2015-12-03 12:14, Mcnamara, John: >> Also, if someone has some bandwidth it would be good to add an option >> to pass -j with an optional number to "make" in the script. > > We can use -j without any number: > "make will not limit the number of jobs that can run simultaneously". > It is a not so bad default. > Hmm, my memory associates an unlimited -j to make with sudden death by fork-bomb. But that was a long time ago and on a different codebase (the kernel maybe), with DPDK on current hardware it doesn't seem that bad at all. OTOH we can also simply ask the system for a reasonable value, eg $ /usr/bin/getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN - Panu -