Re: Make pipe data structure be a circular list of pages, ratherthan

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> I worried a bit about latency, but my test-run of four before/after was in 
> the noise. It's bound to be worse because of the extra allocation, but 
> it's not clearly visible.

Btw, this is not to say that it isn't measurable: I'm sure it is. It's
just not as _obvious_ as the throughput improvement. If somebody were to
do some more controlled latency tests... Hint, hint.

		Linus
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