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From: Ryan Cumming <bodnar42@phalynx.dhs.org>
To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch and Performance of larger pipes
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:05:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E15uME1-0000Ht-00@bodnar42> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BCF1A74.AE96F241@colorfullife.com>
In-Reply-To: <3BCF1A74.AE96F241@colorfullife.com>

On October 18, 2001 11:07, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> Could you test the attached singlecopy patches?
>
> with bw_pipe,
> * on UP, up to +100%.

Awesome! Although any improvement improvement in efficiency is a good thing, 
I am curious as to what uses pipes besides gcc -pipe. UNIX domain sockets 
(for local X11, for instance) aren't implemented as pipes, are they? What 
sort of real world performance gains could I expect from this patch?

-Ryan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-10-18 23:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-18 18:07 Patch and Performance of larger pipes Manfred Spraul
2001-10-18 18:18 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-10-18 23:05 ` Ryan Cumming [this message]
2001-10-19  0:15   ` Stefan Reinauer
2001-10-19 11:37     ` Carlo Strozzi
2001-10-19  4:19   ` Mike Galbraith
2001-10-19 13:52 ` Hubertus Franke
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-18 15:34 Hubertus Franke
2001-10-18 17:43 ` David S. Miller

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