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

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Date:	Wed, 22 Jun 2016 21:47:21 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
To:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [Cocci] [PATCH v3 3/8] coccicheck: enable parmap support

> > Actually, it would be probably good to raise the default chunksize a bit 
> > for the latter reason.  It would depend on which files get assigned to 
> > which chunks though how much benefit it might have.
> 
> What value do you have in mind? Or should we leave this as a separate future
> change?

It's not urgent.  Experiments would have to be done to find a good 
tradeoff.  If the value is too large, there is the risk of a load 
imbalance at the end.

julia