Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261230AbVAHS0B (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jan 2005 13:26:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261244AbVAHS0B (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jan 2005 13:26:01 -0500 Received: from bay-bridge.veritas.com ([143.127.3.10]:43971 "EHLO MTVMIME01.enterprise.veritas.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261230AbVAHSZ6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jan 2005 13:25:58 -0500 Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 18:25:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Hugh Dickins X-X-Sender: hugh@localhost.localdomain To: Linus Torvalds cc: Alan Cox , Oleg Nesterov , William Lee Irwin III , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Make pipe data structure be a circular list of pages, rather than In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 630 Lines: 18 On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Hmm.. Are there really any other guarantees than the atomicity guarantee > for a PIPE_BUF transfer? I don't see any in SuS.. > > That said, existing practice obviously always trumps paper standards, and > yes, coalescing is possible. Would a kernel build with "make -j18" count as existing practice? Immediately hangs for me... Hugh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/