Re: [RFC \ WISH] Add -o option to git-rev-list

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>]

On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Josef Weidendorfer wrote:
> 
> A general question: How many context switches are involved in such
> a producer/consumer scenario, given that the consumer writes one
> line at a time, and the consumer uses poll/select to wait for the
> data?
> Is there some possibility to make the kernel write-combine single
> small producer writes into bigger chunks, which will be delivered
> at once (or smaller data only after a small timeout)?

The data will be write-combined.

The kernel doesn't context-switch after a write() to a pipe if there is 
space left (and usually the pipe buffer is 64kB with current kernels, so 
there obviously will be), unless the reader has a higher priority for some 
reason (ie the reader has been waiting a long time).

So _normally_ you'll see many many writes in one go, and only see context 
switching when the kernel pipe buffer fills up.