Hi Christophe. On Tue, 18 Oct 2016 21:39:32 +0200, Christophe Lyon wrote: > On 11 October 2016 at 22:26, Jens Bauer <jens-lists-lin...@gpio.dk> wrote: >> You deserve some contributions/freebies, with all the hard work >> you're already doing - thank you on behalf of thousands of people >> using your toolchain! > > You may have noticed that your suggestions have been integrated: > - support for Darwin > - use of getconf
Awesome. I'll try it out. If I find any problems, I'll post to the list; otherwise you can assume things are alright. :) > Sorry, I realize that I should have mentioned your name in the commit > message. That's not necessary. I'm happy that I could contribute a little. What's important for me, is that I help improving stuff. =) >> -I mentioned this in the support request as well. I'm creating two >> variables, which contains the code used for executing make. It has a >> 'built-in' -jN, where N is twice the number of cores. > > This makes sense if you run only one build at a time on a machine, but > this is not our main use case. > For the time being, we try to optimize our validation bandwidth, and > we adjust the -j factor along with > the number of builds in parallel on a given build server. Then you will need some 'breathing room' on those machines; I follow you. > As you may have guessed, when we run validations, we check several > targets, which happened > to be scheduled in parallel on several builders. We favor the > throughput in terms of validation > results. For instance, we prefer to have the results for 4 targets in > ~2h rather than 3 targets > in ~1h30, then having to wait for another 1h30 for the next batch. > (Figures not accurate, > just to give you an idea). YMMV. It makes perfect sense. =) Love Jens _______________________________________________ linaro-toolchain mailing list linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org https://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain
