> -----Original Message----- > From: Panu Matilainen [mailto:pmatilai at redhat.com] > Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2015 1:44 PM > To: Thomas Monjalon; Mcnamara, John > Cc: dev at dpdk.org > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] scripts: support any legal git revisions > as abi validation range > > 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
Hi, To be clear, it would be nice to be able to pass "-j" or "-j n" like you can do to directly to 'make'. For a compile heavy codebase (no DPDK) "-j" can, as you say, choke your system but that would be up to the user to specify, or not. John. --
