Re: [PATCH] OvmfPkg: enable multiprocessor builds when using build.sh

["Jordan Justen" <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>]

Maybe a commit message tweak would be:

OvmfPkg/build.sh: enable multithreaded build by default

On 2019-07-21 17:58:16, Rebecca Cran wrote:
> When building both BaseTools and OvmfPkg, enable multiprocessor builds,
> using up to the number of cores available in the system. This can
> drastically reduce build times.
> For example, on a modern ThreadRipper system the
> time required to build decreases from 3 minutes to 1 minute.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bsdio.com>
> ---
>  OvmfPkg/build.sh | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/OvmfPkg/build.sh b/OvmfPkg/build.sh
> index 4fcbdd2bc9..5d3a672bd2 100755
> --- a/OvmfPkg/build.sh
> +++ b/OvmfPkg/build.sh
> @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ ARCH_X64=no
>  BUILDTARGET=DEBUG
>  BUILD_OPTIONS=
>  PLATFORMFILE=
> -THREADNUMBER=1
> +THREADNUMBER=$(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN)

Based on OvmfPkg/build.sh --help, I think initializing THREADNUMBER to
0 might have the same effect, but not depend on getconf. Does that
work?

I'm not sure why I defaulted this to single threaded build way back in
578630802e.

It looks like if we tweaked things more, and omitted adding the -n
parameter to the build command by default, then it would use the
Conf/target.txt value, which by default appears to also be 0, so this
could accomplish the same thing, but also let a user set it in
target.txt.

-Jordan

>  LAST_ARG=
>  RUN_QEMU=no
>  ENABLE_FLASH=no
> -- 
> 2.22.0
>