linuxboot / linuxboot/corebootnerf

Not using all threads during coreboot's make

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Description

"threads" is 14 on my machine, but the toolchain make that coreboot performs seems to be single-threaded. this might be a coreboot problem.

i can see the original make was called correctly from ps:

`brho 253888 253487 0 14:54 pts/10 00:00:00 make -j14 crossgcc-i386 iasl`

but i don't know if that's getting passed down correctly. here's the child:

`brho 253962 253888 0 14:54 pts/10 00:00:00 make -C util/crossgcc build-i386 build_iasl SKIP_GDB=1'

either way, it's been building GCC v8.1.0 for a long time now, and it's using at most one CPU.

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Start by tracing how the top-level `make -j14 crossgcc-i386 iasl` invokes `make -C util/crossgcc build-i386 build_iasl SKIP_GDB=1`. Check whether the job limit reaches the toolchain build, then verify that building GCC uses multiple CPUs rather than one.

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Assessment

Domain
build-system
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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