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authorSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>2019-05-17 22:00:52 -0600
committerSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>2019-07-10 16:52:58 -0600
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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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@@ -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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