On Thu, 24 Sep 2020, Sumera Priyadarsini wrote: > This patchset modifies coccicheck to use at most one thread per core by > default for optimal performance. Modify documentation in coccinelle.rst > to reflect the same. It would be good for the documentation to mention that this only occurs if the machine has more than two cores (and more than 4 hardware threads). julia > > Signed-off-by: Sumera Priyadarsini <sylphrena...@gmail.com> > --- > Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst > b/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst > index 74c5e6aeeff5..a27a4867018c 100644 > --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst > +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst > @@ -130,8 +130,8 @@ 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 only one thread per core of the system. > +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 > co...@systeme.lip6.fr > https://systeme.lip6.fr/mailman/listinfo/cocci >
