From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>,
Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>,
autofs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: autofs: make the autofsv5 packet file descriptor use a packetized pipe
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:03:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F9EEFF5.4000703@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F9DDD3E.6010801@zytor.com>
On 04/29/2012 05:30 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Incidentally, I think there is a good reason to add a v6 packet type
> regardless, for efficiency: with packetized pipes there really is no
> point in sending a packet which is mostly padding for no good reason.
Thinking about it some more: for v6, I wouldn't use a packetized pipe at
all (due to the unnecessary extra buffer consumption.) Instead just put
the message size in the header and read a large chunk, which may end up
being more than one packet and may end up with a partial packet at the
end. *This is okay*, because there is only one reader, and any
additional data needed will be gotten the next time around the loop.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-30 20:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2012-04-30 0:15 ` autofs: make the autofsv5 packet file descriptor use a packetized pipe H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-30 0:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-30 0:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-30 0:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-30 0:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-30 0:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-30 0:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-30 1:29 ` Ian Kent
2012-04-30 1:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-30 5:57 ` Ian Kent
2012-04-30 0:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-30 0:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-30 20:03 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-04-30 20:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-30 20:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-30 6:27 ` Michael Tokarev
2012-04-30 6:43 ` Michael Tokarev
2012-04-30 6:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-30 6:55 ` Ian Kent
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