diff --git a/package/devel/perf/Makefile b/package/devel/perf/Makefile
index c03b9330f4..d6db053173 100644
--- a/package/devel/perf/Makefile
+++ b/package/devel/perf/Makefile
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ PKG_VERSION:=$(LINUX_VERSION)
 PKG_RELEASE:=2
 
 PKG_USE_MIPS16:=0
+PKG_BUILD_PARALLEL:=1
 
 # Perf's makefile and headers are not relocatable and must be built from the
 # Linux sources directory
@@ -43,15 +44,26 @@ MAKE_FLAGS = \
 	NO_LIBPYTHON=1 \
 	NO_NEWT=1 \
 	NO_LZMA=1 \
+	NO_BACKTRACE=1 \
+	NO_LIBNUMA=1 \
+	NO_GTK2=1 \
+	NO_LIBAUDIT=1 \
 	CROSS_COMPILE="$(TARGET_CROSS)" \
 	CC="$(TARGET_CC)" \
 	LD="$(TARGET_CROSS)ld" \
 	CFLAGS="$(TARGET_CFLAGS) $(TARGET_CPPFLAGS)" \
 	LDFLAGS="$(TARGET_LDFLAGS)" \
+	$(if $(findstring c,$(OPENWRT_VERBOSE)),V=1,V='') \
 	WERROR=0 \
-	V=1 \
 	prefix=/usr
 
+define Build/Compile
+	+$(MAKE_FLAGS) $(MAKE) $(PKG_JOBS) \
+		-C $(PKG_BUILD_DIR) \
+		-f Makefile.perf \
+		--no-print-directory
+endef
+
 define Package/perf/install
 	$(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/usr/bin
 	$(INSTALL_BIN) $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/perf $(1)/usr/bin/