Re: RFC [testsuite] Obey --load-average

2017-09-01 Thread Jeff Law
On 08/06/2017 05:05 PM, Daniel Santos wrote: > On 08/03/2017 11:45 AM, Jeff Law wrote: >> On 08/02/2017 11:34 PM, Daniel Santos wrote: >> So does this perform better than make -j X -l X? I use that with good >> success. >> >> jeff > > Sorry for my slow response! > > For a short answer, if you ha

Re: RFC [testsuite] Obey --load-average

2017-08-06 Thread Daniel Santos
On 08/03/2017 05:07 PM, Mike Stump wrote: > On Aug 2, 2017, at 10:34 PM, Daniel Santos wrote: >> I'm working on a patch to modify the testsuite to obey the >> --load-average value if one is passed to make. > The code seems like a reasonable approach. Love to see numbers and test > scenarios so t

Re: RFC [testsuite] Obey --load-average

2017-08-06 Thread Daniel Santos
On 08/03/2017 11:45 AM, Jeff Law wrote: > On 08/02/2017 11:34 PM, Daniel Santos wrote: > So does this perform better than make -j X -l X? I use that with good > success. > > jeff Sorry for my slow response! For a short answer, if you have 8 CPU cores and you run make -j8 -l8 check then everythin

Re: RFC [testsuite] Obey --load-average

2017-08-03 Thread Mike Stump
On Aug 2, 2017, at 10:34 PM, Daniel Santos wrote: > > I'm working on a patch to modify the testsuite to obey the > --load-average value if one is passed to make. The code seems like a reasonable approach. Love to see numbers and test scenarios so that others can tell if you've covered their us

Re: RFC [testsuite] Obey --load-average

2017-08-03 Thread Jeff Law
On 08/02/2017 11:34 PM, Daniel Santos wrote: > I'm working on a patch to modify the testsuite to obey the > --load-average value if one is passed to make. It seems to work pretty > well, except for libstdc++ which doesn't load gcc/libs/gcc-defs.exp > since it defines it's own ${tool}_functions. I