Re: [RFC \ WISH] Add -o option to git-rev-list

> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Josef Weidendorfer wrote:
> > A general question: How many context switches are involved in such
> > a producer/consumer scenario, given that the consumer writes one
> > line at a time, and the consumer uses poll/select to wait for the
> > data?
> > Is there some possibility to make the kernel write-combine single
> > small producer writes into bigger chunks, which will be delivered
> > at once (or smaller data only after a small timeout)?
> 
> The data will be write-combined.
> 
> The kernel doesn't context-switch after a write() to a pipe if there is 
> space left (and usually the pipe buffer is 64kB with current kernels, so 
> there obviously will be), unless the reader has a higher priority for some 
> reason (ie the reader has been waiting a long time).