Change the "xargs -n X" limit for running spatch from 1 to 8, as suggested by Jeff King[1]. Now that we're not using --all-includes anymore this is going to take much less memory, so bumping the limit should be OK. 1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/YEIGzXMDax83cwAx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> --- Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 9fa715e4037..9b4e350ed12 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1201,7 +1201,7 @@ SPATCH_FLAGS = --no-includes --patch . # For the 'coccicheck' target; setting SPATCH_BATCH_SIZE higher will # usually result in less CPU usage at the cost of higher peak memory. # Setting it to 0 will feed all files in a single spatch invocation. -SPATCH_BATCH_SIZE = 1 +SPATCH_BATCH_SIZE = 8 # For the 'coccicheck' target; SPATCH_XARGS can be used to manually # tweak the xargs invocation. By default we invoke "xargs -n 1", and -- 2.31.0.rc0.126.g04f22c5b82
