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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] docs: Use make invocation's -j argument for
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To:     Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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From:   Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
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Date:   Tue, 15 Oct 2019 22:55:11 +0200
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On 06/10/2019 21.33, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> On 04/10/2019 18.08, Kees Cook wrote:

>> The best solution would be to teach sphinx-build about the Make
>> jobserver, though I expect that would be weird. Another idea would be to
>> hold the reservation until sphinx-build finishes and THEN return the
>> slots? That would likely need to change from a utility to a sphinx-build
>> wrapper...
> 
> Yes, a more general solution would be some kind of generic wrapper that
> would hog however many tokens it could get hold of and run a given
> command with a commandline slightly modified to hand over those tokens -
> then wait for that process to exit and give back the tokens. That would
> work for any command that knows about parallelism but doesn't support
> the make jobserver model.

On the off-chance that anybody cares I tried implementing that, because
I've wanted something like that to make "ninja" play nice when invoked
from Make for a long time. Rough sketch at
https://github.com/Villemoes/jobhog .

Rasmus