* [PATCH v2] docs: admin-guide: update to current minimum pipe size default
@ 2025-07-29 18:40 Štěpán Němec
2025-08-11 17:11 ` Jonathan Corbet
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Štěpán Němec @ 2025-07-29 18:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jonathan Corbet
Cc: Alex Xu (Hello71), linux-doc, linux-kernel,
Štěpán Němec
The pipe size limit used when the fs.pipe-user-pages-soft sysctl value
is reached was increased from one to two pages in commit 46c4c9d1beb7;
update the documentation to match the new reality.
Fixes: 46c4c9d1beb7 ("pipe: increase minimum default pipe size to 2 pages")
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@smrk.net>
---
The relevant man page was updated in
7543e84442d7 ("pipe.7: Document change to default pipe size when soft limit is exceeded")
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/20240829204448.2027276-2-kstewart@efficios.com/
---
Changes in v2:
- Better commit message (addressing Jonathan's feedback)
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250728-pipedoc-v1-1-2dae082a56f5@smrk.net
---
Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst
index 6c54718c9d04ba0e690d064bc50f97ef883234fa..9b7f65c3efd8020d62df5b00388c48f2435da3e3 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst
@@ -164,8 +164,8 @@ pipe-user-pages-soft
--------------------
Maximum total number of pages a non-privileged user may allocate for pipes
-before the pipe size gets limited to a single page. Once this limit is reached,
-new pipes will be limited to a single page in size for this user in order to
+before the pipe size gets limited to two pages. Once this limit is reached,
+new pipes will be limited to two pages in size for this user in order to
limit total memory usage, and trying to increase them using ``fcntl()`` will be
denied until usage goes below the limit again. The default value allows to
allocate up to 1024 pipes at their default size. When set to 0, no limit is
---
base-commit: 038d61fd642278bab63ee8ef722c50d10ab01e8f
change-id: 20250728-pipedoc-ed3789cc42dc
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* Re: [PATCH v2] docs: admin-guide: update to current minimum pipe size default
2025-07-29 18:40 [PATCH v2] docs: admin-guide: update to current minimum pipe size default Štěpán Němec
@ 2025-08-11 17:11 ` Jonathan Corbet
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jonathan Corbet @ 2025-08-11 17:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Štěpán Němec
Cc: Alex Xu (Hello71), linux-doc, linux-kernel,
Štěpán Němec
Štěpán Němec <stepnem@smrk.net> writes:
> The pipe size limit used when the fs.pipe-user-pages-soft sysctl value
> is reached was increased from one to two pages in commit 46c4c9d1beb7;
> update the documentation to match the new reality.
>
> Fixes: 46c4c9d1beb7 ("pipe: increase minimum default pipe size to 2 pages")
> Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@smrk.net>
> ---
> The relevant man page was updated in
> 7543e84442d7 ("pipe.7: Document change to default pipe size when soft limit is exceeded")
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/20240829204448.2027276-2-kstewart@efficios.com/
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Better commit message (addressing Jonathan's feedback)
> - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250728-pipedoc-v1-1-2dae082a56f5@smrk.net
> ---
> Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
Applied, thanks.
jon
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