linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/8] coccicheck: enable parmap support

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Message-ID: <a8871bc9-866c-4690-0806-6165680cc45d@imag.fr>
Date:	Tue, 21 Jun 2016 23:00:53 +0200
From:	"Nicolas Palix (LIG)" <Nicolas.Palix@...g.fr>
To:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/8] coccicheck: enable parmap support

Hi,

Le 21/06/16 à 22:43, Julia Lawall a écrit :
>
>
> On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:17:38PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>>>
>>>> Coccinelle has had parmap support since 1.0.2, this means
>>>> it supports --jobs, enabling built-in multithreaded functionality,
>>>> instead of needing one to script it out. Just look for --jobs
>>>> in the help output to determine if this is supported.
>>>>
>>>> Also enable the load balancing to be dynamic, so that if a
>>>> thread finishes early we keep feeding it.
>>>>
>>>> Note: now that we have all things handled for us, redirect stderr to
>>>> stdout as well to capture any possible errors or warnings issued by
>>>> coccinelle.
>>>>
>>>> If --jobs is not supported we fallback to the old mechanism.
>>>> This also now accepts DEBUG_FILE= to specify where you want
>>>> stderr to be redirected to, by default we redirect stderr to
>>>> /dev/null.
>>>
>>> Why do you want to do something different for standard error in the parmap
>>> and nonparmap case?
>>
>> We should just deprecate non-parmap later.
>
> that's not really getting at the point.  I like the DEBUG_FILE= solution.
> I don't like merging stderr and stdout.  So you've put what to my mind is
> the good solution only in the deprecated case (to my understanding of
> the commit message).

I agree. You're not just "enabling parmap support". You're
also changing how messages to stderr are handled.
Maybe add the DEBUG_FILE mechanism in a separate patch for both modes 
(parmap and non-parmap).

>
> julia
>
>


-- 
Nicolas Palix
http://lig-membres.imag.fr/palix/


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