linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] pipe: don't block after data has been written

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Date:	Thu, 5 Nov 2009 17:25:54 +0100
From:	Max Kellermann <max@...mpel.org>
To:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pipe: don't block after data has been written

On 2009/11/05 17:20, Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 04:31:47PM +0100, Max Kellermann wrote:
> >According to the select() / poll() documentation, a write operation on
> >a file descriptor which is "ready for writing" must not block.  Linux
> >violates this rule: if you pass a very large buffer to write(), the
> >system call will not return until everything is written, or an error
> >occurs.
> >
> >This patch adds a simple check: if at least one byte has already been
> >written, break from the loop, instead of calling pipe_wait().
> 
> Do you have any working test-case for this?

Eric Dumazet posted a program earlier today (in response to my
pipe/splice patch):

 http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/5/144

With this patch applied, it runs correctly (without it, the write()
blocks until the consumer has read everything):

 poll([{fd=4, events=POLLOUT}], 1, -1)   = 1 ([{fd=4, revents=POLLOUT}])
 [...]
 write(4, "\0\0\0\0"..., 1000000) = 65536
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