[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] validate_abi: build faster by augmenting make with job count

[Thomas Monjalon]

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.

> +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?

Another acceptable default would be just "-j" without any number.
It would make the number of jobs unlimited.