On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 07:40:49PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 2016-07-20 13:09, Neil Horman: > > From: Neil Horman <nhorman at 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.
