From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
To: Sumera Priyadarsini <sylphrenadin@gmail.com>
Cc: corbet@lwn.net, michal.lkml@markovi.net, Gilles.Muller@lip6.fr,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, nicolas.palix@imag.fr,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cocci@systeme.lip6.fr
Subject: Re: [Cocci] [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: Coccinelle: Modify parallelisation information in docs
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 22:55:17 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2009272254140.20726@hadrien> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3ecfe0e7f95021525b7bbf783a45eb3a176791a9.1600945451.git.sylphrenadin@gmail.com>
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 <sylphrenadin@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
>
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-24 11:23 [Cocci] [PATCH 0/2] Improve Coccinelle Parallelisation Sumera Priyadarsini
2020-09-24 11:26 ` [Cocci] [PATCH 1/2] scripts: coccicheck: Change default value for parallelism Sumera Priyadarsini
2020-09-27 20:55 ` Julia Lawall
2020-09-24 11:27 ` [Cocci] [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: Coccinelle: Modify parallelisation information in docs Sumera Priyadarsini
2020-09-27 20:55 ` Julia Lawall [this message]
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