On Sun, 11 Oct 2020, Sumera Priyadarsini wrote: > 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> Acked-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxxx> Jonathan, will you take this patch? thanks, julia > --- > Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst | 6 ++++-- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst > index 74c5e6aeeff5..530d8d313601 100644 > --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst > +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst > @@ -130,8 +130,10 @@ To enable verbose messages set the V= variable, for example:: > Coccinelle parallelization > -------------------------- > > -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 > > -- > 2.25.1 > > _______________________________________________ > Cocci mailing list > Cocci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://systeme.lip6.fr/mailman/listinfo/cocci >
