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From: Kienan Stewart <kstewart@efficios.com>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, Kienan Stewart <kstewart@efficios.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] pipe.7: Note change to default pipe size when soft limit is exceeded
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 11:43:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240829154304.2010305-1-kstewart@efficios.com> (raw)

See upstream commit:

    commit 46c4c9d1beb7f5b4cec4dd90e7728720583ee348
    Author: Alex Xu (Hello71) <alex_y_xu@yahoo.ca>
    Date:   Thu Aug 5 10:40:47 2021 -0400

        pipe: increase minimum default pipe size to 2 pages

Signed-off-by: Kienan Stewart <kstewart@efficios.com>
---
 man/man7/pipe.7 | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man/man7/pipe.7 b/man/man7/pipe.7
index d1fad9974..c7f3fbb9e 100644
--- a/man/man7/pipe.7
+++ b/man/man7/pipe.7
@@ -223,6 +223,9 @@ So long as the total number of pages allocated to pipe buffers
 for this user is at this limit,
 individual pipes created by a user will be limited to one page,
 and attempts to increase a pipe's capacity will be denied.
+As of Linux 5.14 the default capacity of individual pipes created
+by a user is two pages instead. Users may reduce the pipe capacity
+below this default value.
 .IP
 When the value of this limit is zero, no soft limit is applied.
 The default value for this file is 16384,
-- 
2.45.2


             reply	other threads:[~2024-08-29 15:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-08-29 15:43 Kienan Stewart [this message]
2024-08-29 15:43 ` [PATCH 2/2] pipe.7: Reference potential lower default in pipe capacity section Kienan Stewart
2024-08-29 17:30   ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-08-29 17:24 ` [PATCH 1/2] pipe.7: Note change to default pipe size when soft limit is exceeded Alejandro Colomar

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