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authorKay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>2014-01-24 21:15:34 +0100
committerKay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>2014-01-24 21:16:37 +0100
commit1fa132931a3eed8556da801d9fe91aa4c166445e (patch)
tree0277170057f7da41e9c55480f80f5a3f366aed13 /src/libsystemd/sd-bus/PORTING-DBUS1
parent5a081409c5b88b0fcffb4ee5a0e07ed133ca4da3 (diff)
bus: bump memfd vs. copy limit to 512k to reflect recent benchmarks
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diff --git a/src/libsystemd/sd-bus/PORTING-DBUS1 b/src/libsystemd/sd-bus/PORTING-DBUS1
index 67af27772e..57339ee268 100644
--- a/src/libsystemd/sd-bus/PORTING-DBUS1
+++ b/src/libsystemd/sd-bus/PORTING-DBUS1
@@ -172,15 +172,15 @@ which items are contained in the message is left untouched.
PAYLOAD_MEMFD items allow zero-copy data transfer (see below regarding
the memfd concept). Note however that the overhead of mapping these
makes them relatively expensive, and only worth the trouble for memory
-blocks > 128K (this value appears to be quite universal across
+blocks > 512K (this value appears to be quite universal across
architectures, as we tested). Thus we recommend sending PAYLOAD_VEC
items over for small messages and restore to PAYLOAD_MEMFD items for
-messages > 128K. Since while building up the message you might not
+messages > 512K. Since while building up the message you might not
know yet whether it will grow beyond this boundary a good approach is
to simply build the message unconditionally in a memfd
object. However, when the message is sealed to be sent away check for
-the size limit. If the size of the message is < 128K, then simply send
-the data as PAYLOAD_VEC and reuse the memfd. If it is >= 128K, seal
+the size limit. If the size of the message is < 512K, then simply send
+the data as PAYLOAD_VEC and reuse the memfd. If it is >= 512K, seal
the memfd and send it as PAYLOAD_MEMFD, and allocate a new memfd for
the next message.