Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Jan 2005 22:37:10 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Make pipe data structure be a circular list of pages, rather than |
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On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I worried a bit about latency, but my test-run of four before/after was in > the noise. It's bound to be worse because of the extra allocation, but > it's not clearly visible.
Btw, this is not to say that it isn't measurable: I'm sure it is. It's just not as _obvious_ as the throughput improvement. If somebody were to do some more controlled latency tests... Hint, hint.
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