On 2019 Okt 23, David Howells wrote:

Convert pipes to use head and tail pointers for the buffer ring rather than
pointer and length as the latter requires two atomic ops to update (or a
combined op) whereas the former only requires one.

This change breaks firefox on my system. I've noticed that some pages
doesn't load correctly anymore (e.g. facebook, spiegel.de). The pages
start loading and than stop. Looks like firefox is waiting for some
dynamic loading content. I've bisected to this commit, but can't revert
because of conflicts.

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Regards,
  Johannes Hirte