Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:41:45 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: Make pipe data structure be a circular list of pages, rather than |
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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@ppc970.osdl.org > 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?
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