Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 13:56:45 -0700 (MST) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>, smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some SMP timing tests. Message-ID: <199711022056.NAA03962@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <1232.878502052@time.cdrom.com> References: <p1ipvojjjo3.fsf@panke.panke.de> <1232.878502052@time.cdrom.com>
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> > The bottleneck is the SUBDIR target which is not parallelized.
> >
> > Try the patch and run `make -j<n> -I share/mk all' in /usr/src.
> > The patch split the SUBDIR variable into 4 variables SUBDIR1,
> > ... SUBDIR4 and runs 4 subdir targets simultaneously.
>
> Oh *igitt*! There has to be a better way than this, I think.
>
> What about having bsd.subdir.mk take an arbitrary ${SUBDIR} and
> just divide it up internally?
Unfortunately, this won't work generically because of dependencies. Ie;
we *must* build/install the include files before doing other things.
Nate
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