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From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Fausto Richetti Blanco <fausto.blanco@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, miquels@cistron.nl,
	riel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Pipe buffers' limit of 16 * 4K
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 11:19:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080606091916.GM5757@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0806051155070.29055@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>

On Thu, Jun 05 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> On Friday 2008-05-30 12:35, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >
> >I have an old patch that does that, I just looked it up and it was last
> >updated for 2.6.23. It uses fcntl() with F_SETPIPE_SZ for getting and
> >setting the pipe size.
> >
> >Patch updated, the below is the current Linus kernel.
> 
> Can you merge it?

I could, but I think two key things are missing:

- Is fcntl() the interface we want for changing the pipe size?
- So far, no real problems or performance increases have been
  demonstrated.

I'd rather not attempt to push this until the two things have been
addressed/discussed.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-06  9:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <d8d698ae0805231255i4d0da724p68cb2b9376134797@mail.gmail.com>
2008-05-24  0:19 ` Pipe buffers' limit of 16 * 4K Fausto Richetti Blanco
2008-05-24  0:56   ` Rik van Riel
     [not found]     ` <d8d698ae0805261043u125b653ve73d067cd92caa16@mail.gmail.com>
2008-05-28 21:22       ` Fausto Richetti Blanco
2008-05-28 22:05         ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-29 13:00           ` Fausto Richetti Blanco
2008-05-29 13:19             ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2008-05-29 14:36               ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-29 15:46                 ` Fausto Richetti Blanco
2008-05-30 10:35                   ` Jens Axboe
2008-06-05  9:55                     ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-06-06  9:19                       ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2008-05-26 14:15   ` Jan Engelhardt

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