Re: for a quad-core machine, shouldn't parallelism be set to 8?

[Scott Garman <scott.a.garman@intel.com>]

On 01/09/2013 06:26 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2013, Elvis Dowson wrote:
>
>> Hi Robert,
>
>> On my i7 quad core machine, I've set both values to 6. Setting it to
>> 6 appears to be nearly the same as setting it to 8, I dare say a
>> marginally faster by a minute. I can build core image console in
>> around 22 minutes.
>>
>> Elvis
>
>    i recall someone (richard purdie?) once benchmarked to check the
> benefits of increasing parallelism and while it's obvious you'll hit
> the wall eventually, it would still be nice for the documentation to
> be consistent.

FWIW Robert, I think in the cases like this where the patch is fairly 
trivial, I'd recommend just submitting it and getting feedback on it. In 
general I've found you've raised some legitimate issues, but the fixes 
aren't happening because patches aren't coming in, and things like 
documentation consistency on this level is not going to compete with 
other issues the developers are munching on.

Just a suggestion,

Scott

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Scott Garman
Embedded Linux Engineer - Yocto Project
Intel Open Source Technology Center