Re: Make pipe data structure be a circular list of pages, rather than

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 12:29:13AM +0000, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> ChangeSet 1.2229.1.1, 2005/01/06 16:29:13-08:00, torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 	Make pipe data structure be a circular list of pages, rather than
> 	a circular list of one page.
> 	This improves pipe throughput, and allows us to (eventually)
> 	use these lists of page buffers for moving data around efficiently.

Interesting; how big a gain did you see?


-- wli
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