Re: [patch] pipe: add support for shrinking and growing pipes

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

On Thu, May 27 2010, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> Jens,
> 
> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 24 2010, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> >> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> wrote:
> >> > On Mon, May 24 2010, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> >> >> > Right, that looks like a thinko.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I'll submit a patch changing it to bytes and the agreed API and fix this
> >> >> > -Eerror. Thanks for your comments and suggestions!
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks. And of course you are welcome. (Please CC linux-api@vger on
> >> >> this patche (and all patches that change the API/ABI.)
> >> >
> >> > The first change is this:
> >> >
> >> > http://git.kernel.dk/?p=linux-2.6-block.git;a=commit;h=0191f8697bbdfefcd36e7b8dc3eeddfe82893e4b
> >> >
> >> > and the one dealing with the pages vs bytes API is this:
> >> >
> >> > http://git.kernel.dk/?p=linux-2.6-block.git;a=commit;h=b9598db3401282bb27b4aef77e3eee12015f7f29
> >> >
> >> > Not tested yet, will do so before sending in of course.
> >>
> >> Eyeballing it quickly, these changes look right.
> >
> > Good, thanks.
> >
> >> Do you have some test programs you can make available?
> >
> > Actually I don't, I test it by modifying fio's splice engine to set/get
> > the pipe size and test the resulting transfers.
> 
> An afterthought. Do there not also need to be fixes to the /proc
> interfaces. I don't think they were included in your revised patches.

I think the proc part can be sanely left in pages, since it's just a
memory limiter.

-- 
Jens Axboe