Re: select() bug

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Nov 02 2000 - 19:01:08 EST


> Has anyone considered the possibility of expanding the buffer of
> high-traffic pipes?

Do that too much and the data falls out of L1 cache before we context switch.
Its a rather complex juggling game. DaveM's kiovec pipe patches avoid some of
this by cheating and going user->user

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