From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753271Ab0ATJxW (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:53:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753009Ab0ATJxU (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:53:20 -0500 Received: from mail-iw0-f197.google.com ([209.85.223.197]:56597 "EHLO mail-iw0-f197.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753123Ab0ATJxQ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:53:16 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=TvNB4Q0s/kF38aUHwws0KcS9evaKkPChqI2aIlmqzMFnvVjSTysfZWRb+ggn0FrjnD G9P51tYqvV10gh5rk5WOMwsuA+NOnF/0CYawFcss/4Lt7b6TJYho7EH2kMbDUsy7Q4JO t7Ug5QmBNwqOjcC2GfGzVkh5CWPkDDItCiWM4= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20100119165639.GC23161@linux-mips.org> References: <20100118202414.GA4207@x200> <20100119165639.GC23161@linux-mips.org> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:53:16 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: what's up with "make -j N" output? From: Alexey Dobriyan To: Ralf Baechle Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:24:14PM +0200, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > >> Script does effectively: >> >>       make -k -j5 &>1.log > > My automated builds effectively run a number of "make -j 1" builds in > parallel so I get sane parsable and readable logs. I do this too, still -j1 is waste of time if only one compile is running for whatever reason. > I don't think we give any guarantees for -j 2 or higher even though > that would be highly desirable when things go wrong. Meanwhile, bug dissapeared somewhere. :-\