From: bangerth <bangerth@0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 03:12:22 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Augment documentation.
X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5a7289966818b5a5f0f118f960bffc642549a8bc;p=dealii-svn.git

Augment documentation.


git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@32856 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d
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diff --git a/deal.II/cmake/macros/macro_add_test.cmake b/deal.II/cmake/macros/macro_add_test.cmake
index cc47fb41d1..bf41cec0bd 100644
--- a/deal.II/cmake/macros/macro_add_test.cmake
+++ b/deal.II/cmake/macros/macro_add_test.cmake
@@ -258,11 +258,16 @@ MACRO(DEAL_II_ADD_TEST _category _test_name _comparison_file)
         TIMEOUT ${TEST_TIME_LIMIT}
         )
 
-      IF(_n_cpu GREATER 4)
+      #
+      # Limit concurrency of mpi tests. We can only set concurrency
+      # for the entire test, which includes the compiling and linking
+      # stages that are purely sequential. There is no good way to model
+      # this without unnecessarily restricting concurrency. Consequently,
+      # we just choose to model an "average" concurrency as one half of
+      # the number of MPI jobs.
+      #
+      IF(_n_cpu GREATER 2)
         MATH(EXPR _slots "${_n_cpu} / 2")
-        #
-        # Limit concurrency of mpi tests:
-        #
         SET_TESTS_PROPERTIES(${_test_full} PROPERTIES PROCESSORS ${_slots})
       ENDIF()