Coalescing pipe allocation

Dag-ErlingSmørgrav des at des.no
Tue Feb 3 09:21:00 PST 2004


Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> However, it was side-by-side benchmarking of the resources required
> to allocate pipes vs.  sockets that caused me to investigate
> optimizing the allocation process, as it still costs a lot more to
> allocate a pipe than a socket pair.

Don't worry about the overhead of allocating the pipe buffer.  It will
mostly go away when I fix vm_map_find().

DES
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