linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2 V2] Documentation: Coccinelle: Modify parallelisation information in docs

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Message-ID: <69bd5a72b18138df7a979532062ffc306fbc3b45.1602010816.git.sylphrenadin@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 7 Oct 2020 00:36:58 +0530
From:   Sumera Priyadarsini <sylphrenadin@...il.com>
To:     Julia.Lawall@...6.fr
Cc:     corbet@....net, Gilles.Muller@...6.fr, nicolas.palix@...g.fr,
        michal.lkml@...kovi.net, cocci@...teme.lip6.fr,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2 V2] Documentation: Coccinelle: Modify parallelisation
 information in docs

This patchset modifies coccicheck to use at most one thread per core by
default for optimal performance. Modify documentation in coccinelle.rst
to reflect the same.

Signed-off-by: Sumera Priyadarsini <sylphrenadin@...il.com>
---
 Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst
index 74c5e6aeeff5..a27a4867018c 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst
@@ -130,8 +130,8 @@ 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 only one thread per core of the system.
+To change the parallelism, set the J= variable. For example, to run across 4 CPUs::
 
    make coccicheck MODE=report J=4
 
-- 
2.25.1