[PATCH 0/3] coccinelle: add parallel execution

[Greg Dietsche]

This patch series adds a new flag PARALLEL= to the coccicheck build target and documents the new feature.
It works a lot like make's -j flag. I looked for a way to have make pass on the value of -j, but
didn't find one - if anyone knows how to do that, I'd love to hear about it! 

I suppose an alternate approach would be to accomplish this via make itself, but the approach in this patch series seemed simpler to implement... 

Performance is quite a bit better than single threaded. On my 6 core box, the checks generally run around 3x faster.

Feedback welcome!! :)

Greg

Greg Dietsche (3):
  coccinelle.txt: add overview section
  coccinelle.txt: add documentation of PARALLEL= flag
  coccicheck: add parallel execution

 Documentation/coccinelle.txt |   35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 scripts/coccicheck           |   27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

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1.7.2.5

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