Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] scripts: support any legal git revisions as abi validation range

["Richardson, Bruce" <bruce.richardson@intel.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Panu Matilainen
> Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2015 1:44 PM
> To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>; Mcnamara, John
> <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
> Cc: dev@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
> 
> 	- Panu -

+1 to this.