svn commit: r263778 - in head: bin lib lib/clang sbin share/mk usr.bin usr.sbin

David Chisnall theraven at FreeBSD.org
Thu Mar 27 15:39:26 UTC 2014


On 26 Mar 2014, at 22:30, Dimitry Andric <dim at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

>  Add a SUBDIR_PARALLEL option to bsd.subdir.mk, to allow make to process
>  all the SUBDIR entries in parallel, instead of serially.  Apply this
>  option to a selected number of Makefiles, which can greatly speed up the
>  build on multi-core machines, when using make -j.

THANK YOU!  That's really excellent.  We can probably parallelise pretty much all of usr.lib and usr.bin as well, but going from using 8 cores to 17 is a very nice improvement.  This should help tinderbox / Jenkins build a LOT!

David



More information about the svn-src-all mailing list