This patchset modifies coccicheck to use at most one thread per core by
default in machines with more than 4 hyperthreads for optimal performance.
Modify documentation in coccinelle.rst to reflect the same.
Signed-off-by: Sumera Priyadarsini <sylphrenadin@xxxxxxxxx>
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Changes in V2:
Update scripts/coccicheck to use all available threads
in machines with upto 4 hyperthreads.
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Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst
index 74c5e6aeeff5..6fdc462689d5 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst
@@ -130,8 +130,9 @@ To enable verbose messages set the V= variable, for example::
Coccinelle parallelization
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-By default, coccicheck tries to run as parallel as possible. To change
-the parallelism, set the J= variable. For example, to run across 4 CPUs::
+By default, coccicheck uses at most 1 thread per core in a machine with more
+than 4 hyperthreads. In a machine with upto 4 threads, all threads are used.
+To change the parallelism, set the J= variable. For example, to run across 4 CPUs::
make coccicheck MODE=report J=4
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