On Tue, Oct 31 2017, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-09-28 at 20:41 +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
>> I dug into this a bit.
>> The regression is caused because the 'j' flag now causes
>> arg_job_slots to be set, rather than setting job_slots directly.
>
> I pushed a fix for this.
Thanks. Your fix app
On 10/30/2017 02:22 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
On Tue, 2017-10-31 at 07:39 +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
On Mon, Oct 30 2017, Tim Murphy wrote:
For my money -j is always a top-level setting. To have it per makefile
and then let makefiles depend on that behaviour would open the door to lots
of scary bug
Our experience is that it is really only sensible as a top-level control. That
said, it is convenient to have as an argument to make - which of course opens
one up to seeing it specified on explicit sub-make invocations. I would also
note that we have found that the performance behavior (this is
