From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>,
anton@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.50-BK + 24 CPUs
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 15:01:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021208230109.GZ9882@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1039389778.13079.1.camel@rth.ninka.net>
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 13:28, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Hmm. What happened to that pipe buffer size increase patch? That sounds
>> like it might help here, but only if those things are trying to shove
>> more than 4KB through the pipe at a time.
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 03:22:58PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> You probably mean the zero-copy pipe patches, which I think really
> should go in. The most recent version of the diffs I saw didn't
> use the zero copy bits unless the trasnfers were quite large so it
> should be ok and not pessimize small transfers.
> That patch has been gathering cobwebs for more than a year now when I
> first did it, let's push this in already :-)
I was actually referring to one that explicitly used larger pipe
buffers, but this sounds useful too.
Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-08 22:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-08 21:22 2.5.50-BK + 24 CPUs Manfred Spraul
2002-12-08 21:28 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-08 23:22 ` David S. Miller
2002-12-08 23:01 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-12-09 17:03 ` Manfred Spraul
2002-12-09 20:15 ` David S. Miller
2002-12-09 21:12 ` Manfred Spraul
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-12-08 13:09 Anton Blanchard
2002-12-08 14:49 ` Rik van Riel
2002-12-08 16:45 ` Rik van Riel
2002-12-09 14:08 ` Anton Blanchard
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