From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 17:04:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] test-lib: add the '--stress' option to run a test repeatedly under load
Message-ID: <87o9a1z0j5.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20181204163457.15717-4-szeder.dev@gmail.com>


On Tue, Dec 04 2018, SZEDER Gábor wrote:

> The number of parallel invocations is determined by, in order of
> precedence: the number specified as '--stress=<N>', or the value of
> the GIT_TEST_STRESS_LOAD environment variable, or twice the number of
> available processors in '/proc/cpuinfo', or 8.

With this series we have at least 3 ways to get this number. First
online_cpus() in the C code, then Peff's recent `getconf
_NPROCESSORS_ONLN` in doc-diff, and now this /proc/cpuinfo parsing.

Perhaps it makes sense to split online_cpus() into a helper to use from
the shellscripts instead?