[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/8] tests/vm: Do not abuse parallelism when KVM is not available

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden>
---
v3: Use default args.jobs
v2: Add get_default_jobs (Fam suggestion)
---
 tests/vm/basevm.py | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tests/vm/basevm.py b/tests/vm/basevm.py
index 834bc90cc1..2bd32dc6ce 100755
--- a/tests/vm/basevm.py
+++ b/tests/vm/basevm.py
@@ -196,6 +196,13 @@ class BaseVM(object):
         return self._guest.qmp(*args, **kwargs)
 
 def parse_args(vm_name):
+
+    def get_default_jobs():
+        if kvm_available():
+            return multiprocessing.cpu_count() / 2
+        else:
+            return 1
+
     parser = optparse.OptionParser(
         description="VM test utility.  Exit codes: "
                     "0 = success, "
@@ -208,7 +215,7 @@ def parse_args(vm_name):
                       help="image file name")
     parser.add_option("--force", "-f", action="store_true",
                       help="force build image even if image exists")
-    parser.add_option("--jobs", type=int, default=multiprocessing.cpu_count() 
/ 2,
+    parser.add_option("--jobs", type=int, default=get_default_jobs(),
                       help="number of virtual CPUs")
     parser.add_option("--verbose", "-V", action="store_true",
                       help="Pass V=1 to builds within the guest")
-- 
2.19.1