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SubjectRe: 2.5.50-BK + 24 CPUs
Anton wrote:

>schedules:
> 56283 total
> 41984 pipe_wait
> 9746 do_work
> 1949 do_exit
> 1834 sys_wait4
>
>ie during the compile we scheduled 56283 times, and 41984 of them were
>caused by pipes.
>
The linux pipe implementation has only a page sized buffer - with 4 kB
pages, transfering 1 MB through a pipe means at 512 context switches.

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Manfred

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