According to https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/runners/hosted_runners/windows.html the Windows shared runner should have 2 vCPUs nowadays, indeed! Maybe worth to mention it in the patch description?
Also, how much faster does the job now run for you? On 19/08/2024 13.21, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@linaro.org> --- I don't know how to use Powershell do use nproc+1 jobs to optimize jobs waiting on I/O.
Well, we're calling into bash there, so you could do it as part of the bash statement?
Thomas
--- .gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml index a83f23a786..35ccb74fee 100644 --- a/.gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml +++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml @@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ msys2-64bit: mingw-w64-x86_64-usbredir mingw-w64-x86_64-zstd" - Write-Output "Running build at $(Get-Date -Format u)" + - $env:JOBS = $(.\msys64\usr\bin\bash -lc nproc) - $env:CHERE_INVOKING = 'yes' # Preserve the current working directory - $env:MSYS = 'winsymlinks:native' # Enable native Windows symlink - $env:CCACHE_BASEDIR = "$env:CI_PROJECT_DIR" @@ -121,7 +122,7 @@ msys2-64bit: - cd build - ..\msys64\usr\bin\bash -lc "ccache --zero-stats" - ..\msys64\usr\bin\bash -lc "../configure --enable-fdt=system $CONFIGURE_ARGS" - - ..\msys64\usr\bin\bash -lc "make" + - ..\msys64\usr\bin\bash -lc "make -j$env:JOBS" - ..\msys64\usr\bin\bash -lc "make check MTESTARGS='$TEST_ARGS' || { cat meson-logs/testlog.txt; exit 1; } ;" - ..\msys64\usr\bin\bash -lc "ccache --show-stats" - Write-Output "Finished build at $(Get-Date -Format u)"