diff --git a/recipes/rust/rust.inc b/recipes/rust/rust.inc
index 5ab763d..127e124 100644
--- a/recipes/rust/rust.inc
+++ b/recipes/rust/rust.inc
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ LICENSE = "MIT | Apache-2.0"
 
 B = "${WORKDIR}/build"
 
+# Avoid having the default bitbake.conf disable sub-make parallelization
+EXTRA_OEMAKE = "-e"
+
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM ="\
 	file://COPYRIGHT;md5=b1ab5514343f97198b323e33779470a3 \
 "