Re: Does parallel make work for modules?

[Kalin KOZHUHAROV]

H. J. Lu wrote:
> When building 2.6.7 on a 4way Linux/ia64, "make -j4 modules" doesn't
> spawn 4 jobs. I got
>
>  5756 pts/0    S      0:00 make -s -j4 modules
>  5868 pts/0    S      0:00 make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=fs
>  7240 pts/0    S      0:00 make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=fs/nfs
>  7269 pts/0    S      0:00 /bin/sh -c set -e; ?   gcc -Wp,-MD,fs/nfs/.pagelist.o. 
>  7270 pts/0    S      0:00 gcc -Wp,-MD,fs/nfs/.pagelist.o.d -nostdinc -iwithprefi
>  7271 pts/0    S      0:00 /usr/gcc-3.4/libexec/gcc/ia64-unknown-linux-gnu/3.4.1/
>  7272 pts/0    R      0:00 as -x -o fs/nfs/pagelist.o -
>
> 2.4 kernel module build work fine. Any ideas?

-j8 (and distcc) WFM since 2.6.0 without problems. All CPUs (4+) are at almost 100% during the build.

Kalin.

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