[petsc-dev] could we let "make -j N" work for PETSc and external packages?

[Satish Balay]

PETSc configure sets up a default value that always gets used.

>>>>>>>
balay at asterix /home/balay/tmp/petsc (maint=)
$ make
<snip>
Using MAKEFLAGS: -j4 -l6.0 w -- PETSC_DIR=/home/balay/tmp/petsc PETSC_ARCH=arch-linux2-c-debug
<<<

You can always override this default by adding a -j option. [since the
user specified -j value comes at the end - it overrides the one that
is specified at the begining of make command]

>>>>>>>>>>
balay at asterix /home/balay/tmp/petsc (maint=)
$ make -j20
<snip>
Using MAKEFLAGS: -j4 -l6.0 w -j20 --jobserver-auth=3,4 -- PETSC_DIR=/home/balay/tmp/petsc PETSC_ARCH=arch-linux2-c-debug
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However some older make version might not display this info properly. [it should use the user specified '-j' value though]
>>>>>>>
[petsc at ipro petsc.maint ((879a78556f...))]$ make -j2
Using MAKEFLAGS: -j7 -l12.0 w --jobserver-fds=3,4 -j -- PETSC_DIR=/Users/petsc/petsc.maint PETSC_ARCH=arch-osx-10.6
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You can use the alternate mode - just modify the default '-j' value used MAKE_NP 

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[petsc at ipro petsc.maint ((879a78556f...))]$ make MAKE_NP=2
Using MAKEFLAGS: -j2 -l12.0 w -- PETSC_DIR=/Users/petsc/petsc.maint PETSC_ARCH=arch-osx-10.6 MAKE_NP=2
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Or you can control this default value at configure time [this affects externalpackage builds]

./configure --with-make-np=2

Satish


On Tue, 24 Jul 2018, Fande Kong wrote:

> Thanks, Jed and Satish,
> 
> 
> But "make -j N" does not change anything when compiling petsc.
> 
> 
> 
> If I do something like: "make -j whatever". Then I always get:
> 
> 
> Using MAKEFLAGS: -j8 -l36.0 w
> 
> 
> It looks like PETSc always uses "-j something" that we can not change using the command-line.
> 
> 
> Is it a bug?
> 
> 
> 
> Fande,
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 3:44 PM
> To: Fande Kong; For users of the development version of PETSc
> Subject: Re: [petsc-dev] could we let "make -j N" work for PETSc and external packages?
> 
> Fande Kong <Fande.Kong at inl.gov> writes:
> 
> > Hi Developers,
> >
> >
> > Could we somehow let "make -j N" to take multiple threads for compiling PETSc. Do we use multiple threads when compiling the external packages such as hypre, parmetis etc.?
> 
> Yes, see self.parallelMake=0 for the few packages that don't support parallel make.
>