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[Michael Hudson-Doyle <michael.hudson+lp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:44:43 -0000, Guilherme Salgado <guilherme.salgado@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hmm, my gut feeling is that the things we can do in parallel are fast
> enough to not make a significant difference if we actually do run them
> in parallel, but I'd like to be wrong there.
> 
> Either way, before investing any time on actually running things in
> parallel we should probably find out what's the percentage of time spent
> on each operation.

I remember Matt Waddell did some work where formatting and copying the
rootfs to the sd card and installing hwpacks in a chroot went in
parallel, with an rsync at the end to catch up -- it sounds like that
would still lead to a fair speed up in some use cases.

Cheers,
mwh

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/893104

Title:
  Execute parallel l-m-c actions where possible

Status in Linaro Image Tools:
  New

Bug description:
  Hi,

  This was brought up in a session at the last Connect. The request is
  to perform actions in parallel in linaro-media-create to shorten
  execution time.

  Thanks,

  Mattias

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