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authorRobert Collins <robertc@robertcollins.net>2010-12-06 21:24:32 +1300
committerRobert Collins <robertc@robertcollins.net>2010-12-06 21:24:32 +1300
commitb1fac98037f00afff7ef3df43ff79d46a9352bc0 (patch)
tree233168a6a56f9768b173b8c4cf06d13e3762f4e4
parenta34d7ba839e778c5ac34d69e78cd3eaee417ba81 (diff)
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Improve MANUAL for parallel testing.
-rw-r--r--doc/MANUAL.txt6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/MANUAL.txt b/doc/MANUAL.txt
index 32990c4..bdd8c6c 100644
--- a/doc/MANUAL.txt
+++ b/doc/MANUAL.txt
@@ -87,8 +87,10 @@ then testr is able to run your tests in parallel::
$ testr run --parallel
-This will first list the tests, partition them, and then invoke multiple test
-runners.
+This will first list the tests, partition the tests into one partition per CPU
+on the machine, and then invoke multiple test runners at the same time, with
+each test runner getting one partition. Currently the partitioning algorithm
+is a simple round-robin, and the CPU detection is only implemented for Linux.
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