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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds <at> osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Make pipe data structure be a circular list of pages, rather than
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel
Date: 2005-01-08 18:54:56 GMT (4 years, 25 weeks, 1 day, 23 hours and 45 minutes ago)

On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> 
> Would a kernel build with "make -j18" count as existing practice?

Absolutely.

Looks like it does a single-byte write of '+' for each process started 
(and I assume it will do a '-' for each process that exits ;)

Oh, well. So much for my hope to avoid coalescing.

		Linus