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From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Make pipe data structure be a circular list of pages, rather than
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 18:25:17 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0501081821510.4823-100000@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0501070910000.2272@ppc970.osdl.org>

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


  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-08 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-07 14:30 Make pipe data structure be a circular list of pages, rather than Oleg Nesterov
2005-01-07 15:45 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-07 17:23   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-08 18:25     ` Hugh Dickins [this message]
2005-01-08 18:54       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-07 16:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-07 16:06   ` Alan Cox
2005-01-07 17:33     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-07 17:48       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-07 20:59         ` Mike Waychison
2005-01-07 23:46           ` Chris Friesen
2005-01-08 21:38             ` Lee Revell
2005-01-08 21:51               ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-08 22:02                 ` Lee Revell
2005-01-08 22:29                 ` Davide Libenzi
2005-01-09  4:07                 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-09 23:19                   ` Davide Libenzi
2005-01-14 10:15             ` Peter Chubb
2005-01-07 21:59         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-07 22:53           ` Diego Calleja
2005-01-07 23:15             ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-10 23:23         ` Robert White
2005-01-07 17:45     ` Chris Friesen
2005-01-07 16:39   ` Davide Libenzi
2005-01-07 17:09     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-18  6:07   ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-01-20  2:14 Robert White
2005-01-16  2:59 Make pipe data structure be a circular list of pages, rather Linus Torvalds
2005-01-19 21:12 ` Make pipe data structure be a circular list of pages, rather than linux
2005-01-20  2:06   ` Robert White
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0501091946020.3620-100000@localhost.localdomain>
     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.58.0501091713300.2373@ppc970.osdl.org>
     [not found]   ` <Pine.LNX.4.58.0501091830120.2373@ppc970.osdl.org>
2005-01-12 19:50     ` Davide Libenzi
2005-01-12 20:10       ` Linus Torvalds
     [not found] <200501070313.j073DCaQ009641@hera.kernel.org>
2005-01-07  3:41 ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-01-07  6:35   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-07  6:37     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-19 16:29       ` Larry McVoy
2005-01-19 17:14         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-19 19:01           ` Larry McVoy
2005-01-20  0:01             ` Linus Torvalds

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