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Date:      Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:24:26 +0800
From:      Zhao Shuai <zhaoshuai@freebsd.org>
To:        Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>, soc-status <soc-status@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FIFO Optimization - final summary
Message-ID:  <8126ef5c0908230524g177f29d2qe836ad66c0c3f016@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090822130445.GM1292@hoeg.nl>
References:  <8126ef5c0908220125u42463afbm3303413015c05107@mail.gmail.com> <20090822130445.GM1292@hoeg.nl>

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2009/8/22 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>

> Hi,
>
> * Zhao Shuai <zhaoshuai@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > This summer I worked on rewriting the FIFO(named pipe) subsystem.
> > The new FIFO system uses pipe implementation while previously
> > it is implemented as socket.
> >
> > The new FIFO code passes the official regression test and the following
> > bugs has been eliminated: PR 76525,PR 94772,PR 76144,PR 116770.
> > According to my performance test, the new FIFO system increases the
> > throughput by 30% comparing with the old one.
> >
> > I will continue to improve my code after GSoC and hope it can be merged
> > with the main tree.
>
> I'm too lazy to read the source, check out sources, etc. but the pipe
> and fifo code has now been merged, right? Just out of curiosity, how do

these changes affect the kernel binary size? How many lines of code have

been added/removed?


The original pipe code is moved into sys/kern/subr_pipe.c where we deal
with pipe internals. Most of the pipe code is kept untouched except some
changes to several function prototype. /sys/kern/sys_pipe.c is now just a
wrapper of pipe routines.

The affect on the kernel binary size is negligible.

-- 
Regards,
Zhao



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