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List:       linux-backports
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] gentree.py: use Coccinelle's new Parallelism support
From:       "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof () do-not-panic ! com>
Date:       2015-06-19 17:51:29
Message-ID: CAB=NE6UpXMqcb-03wJbXdDKAUjr_GJbsgGHBGPz38GSh5iFq5w () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
<mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> wrote:
> As of coccinelle-1.0.0-rc24 Coccinelle got its own built-in
> parallelism support which does not require use of the separate
> instances to be spawned. Coccinelle's new built-in parallelism
> uses the parmap library for this.
>
> Replace the pycocci script, which is no longer needed. I've
> tested this with the 1.0.0 and 1.0.0-rc24 release and get
> the same results for both releases.
>
> When comparing our old way of doing things (using pycocci)
> vs using the new parallellism support (-j option for spatch)
> I see a general performance boost of at least ~10 seconds
> right on average now when generating code using gentree.py
> on the backports build server.
>
> Cc: Xavier Clerc <xavier.clerc@inria.fr>
> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
> ---
>  devel/pycocci | 174 ----------------------------------------------------------
>  gentree.py    |  23 +++++---
>  2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 181 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100755 devel/pycocci

I ran into a snag with this feature, I reported it to the cocci
mailing list [0], so for now we can't merge this.

[0] https://systeme.lip6.fr/pipermail/cocci/2015-June/002140.html

 Luis
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