From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: "Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@smrk.net>
Cc: "Alex Xu (Hello71)" <alex_y_xu@yahoo.ca>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@smrk.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: admin-guide: update to current minimum pipe size default
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 13:07:58 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87seigxhf5.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250728-pipedoc-v1-1-2dae082a56f5@smrk.net>
Štěpán Němec <stepnem@smrk.net> writes:
> Fixes: 46c4c9d1beb7 ("pipe: increase minimum default pipe size to 2 pages")
> Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@smrk.net>
> ---
> The relevant man page was updated in
> 7543e84442d7 ("pipe.7: Document change to default pipe size when soft limit is exceeded")
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/20240829204448.2027276-2-kstewart@efficios.com/
> ---
> Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst
> index 6c54718c9d04ba0e690d064bc50f97ef883234fa..9b7f65c3efd8020d62df5b00388c48f2435da3e3 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst
> @@ -164,8 +164,8 @@ pipe-user-pages-soft
> --------------------
>
> Maximum total number of pages a non-privileged user may allocate for pipes
> -before the pipe size gets limited to a single page. Once this limit is reached,
> -new pipes will be limited to a single page in size for this user in order to
> +before the pipe size gets limited to two pages. Once this limit is reached,
> +new pipes will be limited to two pages in size for this user in order to
> limit total memory usage, and trying to increase them using ``fcntl()`` will be
This seems like a reasonable change, but can I ask you to resubmit it
with a proper changelog, please?
Thanks,
jon
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2025-07-28 18:30 Štěpán Němec
2025-07-28 19:07 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2025-07-28 19:30 ` Štěpán Němec
2025-07-28 19:52 ` Jonathan Corbet
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