diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/app-arch/cpio/cpio-2.15.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/app-arch/cpio/cpio-2.15.ebuild
index e9733b098c..6f98be317e 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/app-arch/cpio/cpio-2.15.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/app-arch/cpio/cpio-2.15.ebuild
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 
 EAPI=8
 
+inherit multiprocessing
+
 DESCRIPTION="File archival tool which can also read and write tar files"
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.gnu.org/software/cpio/cpio.html"
 SRC_URI="mirror://gnu/cpio/${P}.tar.bz2"
@@ -39,6 +41,10 @@ src_configure() {
 	econf "${myeconfargs[@]}"
 }
 
+src_test() {
+	emake check TESTSUITEFLAGS="--jobs=$(get_makeopts_jobs)"
+}
+
 pkg_postinst() {
 	# Ensure to preserve the symlink before app-alternatives/cpio
 	# is installed