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

[Chris Friesen]

Mike Waychison wrote:

> This got me to thinking about how you can heuristically optimize away
> coalescing support and still allow PAGE_SIZE bytes minimum in the
> effective buffer.

While coalescing may be a win in some cases, there should also be some 
way to tell the kernel to NOT coalesce, to handle the case where you 
want minimum latency at the cost of some throughput.

Chris
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