Change the "xargs -n X" limit for running spatch from 1 to 8, as
suggested by Jeff King[1]. Now that we're not using --all-includes
anymore this is going to take much less memory, so bumping the limit
should be OK.
1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/YEIGzXMDax83cwAx@coredump.intra.peff.net/ (local)
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <redacted>
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Makefile | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index eaac14275bb..543fe472482 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1204,7 +1204,7 @@ SPATCH_FLAGS = --all-includes --include-headers-for-types --patch .
# For the 'coccicheck' target; setting SPATCH_BATCH_SIZE higher will
# usually result in less CPU usage at the cost of higher peak memory.
# Setting it to 0 will feed all files in a single spatch invocation.
-SPATCH_BATCH_SIZE = 1
+SPATCH_BATCH_SIZE = 8
# For the 'coccicheck' target; SPATCH_XARGS can be used to manually
# tweak the xargs invocation. By default we invoke "xargs -n 1", and
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