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
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Currently, Coccinelle uses at most one thread per core by default in
machines with more than 2 hyperthreads. However, for systems with only 4
hyperthreads, this does not improve performance.
Modify coccicheck to use all available threads in machines with
upto 4 hyperthreads.
Signed-off-by:
While fetching the number of threads per core with lscpu,
the [:digit:] set is used for translation of digits from 0-9.
However, using [:digit:] instead of "[:digit:]" does not seem
to work uniformly for some shell types and configurations
(such as zsh).
Therefore, modify coccicheck to use double
Presently, Coccinelle uses at most one thread per core to improve
performance in machines with more than 2 hyperthreads. Modify
coccicheck to use all available threads in machines upto 4 hyperthreads.
Further, modify the coccicheck script to improve portability.
Modify documentation to reflect
