Re: [TECH TOPIC] Kernel documentation - update and future directions

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Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> It should be noticed that kernel-doc doesn't run in parallel. Python
> still suffers for a global big lock (called GIL). My attempts to run in
> parallel actually made kernel-doc slower, but this is changing: the
> next Python version is planning to get rid of GIL. So, maybe within
> a year we can re-add the patches to run it in parallel.

I certainly wouldn't want to discourage work in this area, but I do
wonder if it would be worth the trouble; kernel-doc is nowhere near
being the bottleneck in this whole process.  Now, if you could
multi-thread the Sphinx HTML builder...

jon




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