Re: [PATCH] pipe: wakeup writer only if pipe buffer is at least half empty

[Konstantin Khlebnikov]

On 28/10/2019 15.22, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 10:09 AM Konstantin Khlebnikov
> <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Ok. This breakage scenario is doubtful but such weird software really might exist.
> >
> > What about making this thing tunable via fcntl like size of pipe buffer?
>
> Let's see if we can do it without a tunable and maybe nobody notices?
>
> But I'd like you to do it on top of David's pipe patches, so that we
> don't have unnecessary churn and conflicts next merge window in this
> area. Ok?

Sure. This change is trivial in comparison to his patchset.