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 <sylphrena...@gmail.com>
---
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
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2.25.1
