Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 3/3] .travis.yml: make -j3

[David Gibson]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 12:53:15PM +0000, Alex Bennée wrote:
> The move from Travis VMs to Containers came with a upgrade from 1.5
> cores to 2. The received wisdom is -j N+1 means a core can be doing work
> while other threads wait for IO to complete. This is hard to test on the
> Travis infrastructure but an initial before/after eyeballing seems to
> confirm it is an improvement.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <address@hidden>

Reviewed-by: David Gibson <address@hidden>

> ---
>  .travis.yml | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
> index 3f77bfa..345e3ca 100644
> --- a/.travis.yml
> +++ b/.travis.yml
> @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ before_install:
>  before_script:
>    - ./configure ${CONFIG}
>  script:
> -  - make -j2 && ${TEST_CMD}
> +  - make -j3 && ${TEST_CMD}
>  matrix:
>    include:
>      # Sparse is GCC only

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