Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Jun 2008 11:19:17 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: Pipe buffers' limit of 16 * 4K |
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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
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