From 90441c4476481e4e05edacf44903aeac2feecd6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vratislav Podzimek <vpodzime@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 13:20:39 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Run 'xz' and 'lzma' with multiple threads
This speeds up compression a lot on multicore systems.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1029786
[Edited-by: Harald Hoyer: use getconf for cpu_count]
---
dracut.sh | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/dracut.sh b/dracut.sh
index b03522b..59d3e4b 100755
--- a/dracut.sh
+++ b/dracut.sh
@@ -693,12 +693,14 @@ stdloglvl=$((stdloglvl + verbosity_mod_l))
# eliminate IFS hackery when messing with fw_dir
fw_dir=${fw_dir//:/ }
+cpu_count=$(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
+
# handle compression options.
[[ $compress ]] || compress="gzip"
case $compress in
bzip2) compress="bzip2 -9";;
- lzma) compress="lzma -9";;
- xz) compress="xz --check=crc32 --lzma2=dict=1MiB";;
+ lzma) compress="lzma -9 ${cpu_count:+-T$cpu_count}";;
+ xz) compress="xz --check=crc32 --lzma2=dict=1MiB ${cpu_count:+-T$cpu_count}";;
gzip) compress="gzip -9"; command -v pigz > /dev/null 2>&1 && compress="pigz -9";;
lzo) compress="lzop -9";;
lz4) compress="lz4 -9";;