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    scripts: coccicheck: Change default value for parallelism · e16a7c47
    Sumera Priyadarsini authored
    By default, coccicheck utilizes all available threads to implement
    parallelisation. However, when all available threads are used,
    a decrease in performance is noted. The elapsed time is  minimum
    when at most one thread per core is used.
    
    For example, on benchmarking the semantic patch kfree.cocci for
    usb/serial using hyperfine, the outputs obtained for J=5 and J=2
    are 1.32 and 1.90 times faster than those for J=10 and J=9
    respectively for two separate runs. For the larger drivers/staging
    directory, minimium elapsed time is obtained for J=3 which is 1.86
    times faster than that for J=12. The optimal J value does not
    exceed 6 in any of the test runs. The benchmarks are run on a machine
    with 6 cores, with 2 threads per core, i.e, 12 hyperthreads in all.
    
    To improve performance, modify coccicheck to use at most only
    one thread per core by default.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSumera Priyadarsini <sylphrenadin@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJulia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@inria.fr>
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