Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 19 Oct 2001 06:19:27 +0200 (CEST) | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Subject | Re: Patch and Performance of larger pipes |
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On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Ryan Cumming wrote:
> 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?
If Manfred's patch helps gcc -pipe, then hopefully he'll submit it. (or maybe we should just kill the -pipe switch from the kernel tree;) In testing with a hefty parallel make, removing that switch produced a nice speedup.
-Mike
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