Document object prepare and object run parallelization.

cdist/argparse.py

@@ -127,8 +127,9 @@ def get_parsers():
     parser['config_main'].add_argument(
            '-j', '--jobs', nargs='?',
            type=check_positive_int,
-           help=('Specify the maximum number of parallel jobs, currently '
-                 'only global explorers are supported'),
+           help=('Specify the maximum number of parallel jobs. Global'
+                 'explorers, object prepare and object run are supported'
+                 '(currently in beta'),
            action='store', dest='jobs',
            const=multiprocessing.cpu_count())
     parser['config_main'].add_argument(

docs/changelog

@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 Changelog
 ---------
 
+next:
+	* Core: Support -j parallelization for object prepare and object run (Darko Poljak)
+
 4.4.3: 2017-06-13
 	* Type __golang_from_vendor: Install golang from https://golang.org/dl/ (Kamila Součková)
 	* Type __go_get: Install go packages using go get (Kamila Součková)

docs/src/cdist-parallelization.rst

@@ -11,8 +11,9 @@ with :strong:`-p/--parallel` option.
 The other way is to operate in parallel within one host where you specify
 the number of jobs. This is enabled with :strong:`-j/--jobs` option where you
 can specify the number of parallel jobs. By default,
-:strong:`multiprocessing.cpu_count()` is used. For this mode only global
-explorers are currently supported and this option is still in :strong:`beta`.
+:strong:`multiprocessing.cpu_count()` is used. For this mode global explorers,
+object preparation and object run are supported and this option is still in
+:strong:`beta`.
 
 You can, of course, use those two options together. This means that each host
 will be processed by its own process. Within each process cdist will operate

docs/src/man1/cdist.rst

@@ -99,8 +99,9 @@ Configure/install one or more hosts.
 
 .. option:: -j [JOBS], --jobs [JOBS]
 
-    Specify the maximum number of parallel jobs; currently only
-    global explorers are supported (currently in beta)
+    Specify the maximum number of parallel jobs. Global
+    explorers, object prepare and object run are supported
+    (currently in beta).
 
 .. option:: -n, --dry-run