Use default number of cores for gclient jobs
Instead of always setting jobs to 1 for ARM (which includes Mac), use
number of cores. Some old boards have not worked well with parallel
sync, but I don't have historical context was going on. My assumption is
that those boards were single-core.
See: https://codereview.chromium.org/10116033
R=aravindvasudev@google.com
Bug: 1410757
Change-Id: I0b7e3363375ba719c73d4d7141e6cab34bf7d32f
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/tools/depot_tools/+/4198732
Reviewed-by: Dirk Pranke <dpranke@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Aravind Vasudevan <aravindvasudev@google.com>
Commit-Queue: Josip Sokcevic <sokcevic@chromium.org>
diff --git a/gclient.py b/gclient.py
index 8ec13f0..36a6f11 100755
--- a/gclient.py
+++ b/gclient.py
@@ -3355,9 +3355,9 @@
optparse.OptionParser.__init__(
self, version='%prog ' + __version__, **kwargs)
- # Some arm boards have issues with parallel sync.
+ # Some old arm boards have issues with parallel sync, so use default cores.
if platform.machine().startswith('arm'):
- jobs = 1
+ jobs = gclient_utils.NumLocalCpus()
else:
jobs = max(8, gclient_utils.NumLocalCpus())