Re: Make pipe data structure be a circular list of pages, rather
than
[Posted January 11, 2005 by corbet]
| From: |
| Linus Torvalds <torvalds-AT-osdl.org> |
| To: |
| Hugh Dickins <hugh-AT-veritas.com> |
| Subject: |
| Re: Make pipe data structure be a circular list of pages, rather
than |
| Date: |
| Sat, 8 Jan 2005 10:54:56 -0800 (PST) |
| Cc: |
| Alan Cox <alan-AT-lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg-AT-tv-sign.ru>,
William Lee Irwin III <wli-AT-holomorphy.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org> |
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Hugh Dickins wrote:
>
> Would a kernel build with "make -j18" count as existing practice?
Absolutely.
Looks like it does a single-byte write of '+' for each process started
(and I assume it will do a '-' for each process that exits ;)
Oh, well. So much for my hope to avoid coalescing.
Linus