From: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 04:00:52 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: binman: Document parallel tests
X-Git-Tag: v2019.10-rc1~32^2~32
X-Git-Url: https://git.librecmc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=55660d08a095158069ec37915ec4f0843588cd58;p=oweals%2Fu-boot.git

binman: Document parallel tests

Since binman can run tests in parallel, document this.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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diff --git a/tools/binman/README b/tools/binman/README
index 927fa856ac..ac193f16cf 100644
--- a/tools/binman/README
+++ b/tools/binman/README
@@ -702,6 +702,20 @@ To enable Python test coverage on Debian-type distributions (e.g. Ubuntu):
    $ sudo apt-get install python-coverage python-pytest
 
 
+Concurrent tests
+----------------
+
+Binman tries to run tests concurrently. This means that the tests make use of
+all available CPUs to run.
+
+ To enable this:
+
+   $ sudo apt-get install python-subunit python3-subunit
+
+Use '-P 1' to disable this. It is automatically disabled when code coverage is
+being used (-T) since they are incompatible.
+
+
 Advanced Features / Technical docs
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