[PATCH v4 3/3] Documentation: Coccinelle: Modify Parallelisation information in docs

From: Sumera Priyadarsini
Date: Sun Oct 11 2020 - 06:31:14 EST


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>
---
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