From 55660d08a095158069ec37915ec4f0843588cd58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Glass Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 22:00:52 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] binman: Document parallel tests Since binman can run tests in parallel, document this. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass --- tools/binman/README | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) 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 ---------------------------------- -- 2.25.1