From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. J. Lu" Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 22:08:13 +0000 Subject: Does parallel make work for modules? Message-Id: <20040622220813.GA306@lucon.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux kernel Cc: linux ia64 kernel When building 2.6.7 on a 4way Linux/ia64, "make -j4 modules" doesn't spawn 4 jobs. I got 5756 pts/0 S 0:00 make -s -j4 modules 5868 pts/0 S 0:00 make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=fs 7240 pts/0 S 0:00 make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=fs/nfs 7269 pts/0 S 0:00 /bin/sh -c set -e; ? gcc -Wp,-MD,fs/nfs/.pagelist.o. 7270 pts/0 S 0:00 gcc -Wp,-MD,fs/nfs/.pagelist.o.d -nostdinc -iwithprefi 7271 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/gcc-3.4/libexec/gcc/ia64-unknown-linux-gnu/3.4.1/ 7272 pts/0 R 0:00 as -x -o fs/nfs/pagelist.o - 2.4 kernel module build work fine. Any ideas? H.J.