On Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 10:32 PM David Gow <davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The --jobs parameter for kunit_tool currently defaults to 8 CPUs, > regardless of the number available. For systems with significantly more > (or less), this is not as efficient. Instead, default --jobs to the > number of CPUs available to the process: while there are as many > superstitions as to exactly what the ideal jobs:CPU ratio is, this seems > sufficiently sensible to me. > > A new helper function to get the default number of jobs is added: > get_default_jobs() -- this is used in kunit_tool_test instead of a > hardcoded value, or an explicit call to len(os.sched_getaffinity()), so > should be more flexible if this needs to change in the future. > > Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@xxxxxxxxxx>
