Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/2] tools: OVMF parallel build

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 04:41:32PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 14:18 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 10:52 +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> > > Though it doesn't work with make's "-j" option, the build system of OVMF
> > > has an option to specify parallel threads used to run the build.
> > > 
> > > Using 4 threads to build OVMF looks like a sensible default.
> > 
> > It's a bit arbitrary, but it'll do, I suppose.
> > 
> > It's worth noting that this won't interact with gnu makes token handling
> > which is used to make sure there are only N processes across the
> > recursive build. So this will consume 1 token but launch 4 threads. So
> > if -j4 is used you'll actually get 7 things happening.
> > 
> > I think we can live with that.
> > 
> > So I'm happy with the patch, but I'd like to give others a chance to
> > disagree before applying.
> 
> They had their chance...
> > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Anthony Perard <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ... applied.
> 
> Did the distclean issue which the second patch was addressing get fixed
> another way or is there a patch outstanding somewhere?

Urgh. I thought I posted it somewhere, but apparently I was wrong.

I will send it now.

Wei.

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