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authorKienan Stewart <kstewart@efficios.com>2024-08-29 11:43:04 -0400
committerAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2024-08-29 19:28:09 +0200
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pipe.7: Reference potential lower default in "Pipe capacity" sub-section
The default capacity of pipes is two pages for users exceeding the pipe-user-pages-soft limit. Before Linux 5.14, it was only one page. Signed-off-by: Kienan Stewart <kstewart@efficios.com> Message-ID: <20240829154304.2010305-2-kstewart@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
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@@ -131,6 +131,9 @@ operations.
See
.BR fcntl (2)
for more information.
+Since Linux 4.5, the default pipe capacity is lower than 16 pages when the
+.I pipe\-user\-pages\-soft
+limit is exceeded.
.P
The following
.BR ioctl (2)