[Toybox] toybox: xargs: add actual support for -P max-proc flag

[enh]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 12:09 PM enh <enh at google.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 3:52 AM Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> >
> > On 7/31/20 4:19 PM, Mark Salyzyn via Toybox wrote:
> > > On 7/31/20 12:30 PM, Mark Salyzyn wrote:
> > >> -P flag was fake just to provide compatibility.  Add support for -P
> > >> maximum process count to actually create parallelism.  Does not
> > >> support SIGUSR1 or SIGUSR2 increment/decrement signals as publicly
> > >> documented for other variants.  If max-proc is 0, run as many
> > >> processes as possible simultaneously.
> > >>
> > > The Bug: referenced were scrubbed, and regardless hides some history.
> When using
> > > toybox xargs for a kernel build, it added 5 minutes to the total build
> time when
> > > it ignored the -P8 flag and exec'd only one at a time.
> > >
> > > Sincerely -- Mark Salyzyn
> >
> > I did a slightly smaller implementation (I'd looked at implementing -P
> before,
> > but waited for somebody to complain about its absence), which supports
> SIGUSR1
> > and SIGUSR2.
> >
> > Does what I checked in work for you?
>
> it passes the tests on Android (i synced AOSP this morning), but i'll
> let salyzyn report specifically on the kernel build times.
>

(the SoC vendor that originally brought this up say they're happy now...)


> (i've attached a patch to fix the -P help text alignment.)
>
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Rob
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