diff --git a/mercurial/wireprotov2peer.py b/mercurial/wireprotov2peer.py
--- a/mercurial/wireprotov2peer.py
+++ b/mercurial/wireprotov2peer.py
@@ -136,6 +136,9 @@
         response = self._responses[frame.requestid]
 
         if action == 'responsedata':
+            # This buffers all data until end of stream is received. This
+            # is bad for performance.
+            # TODO make response data streamable
             response.b.write(meta['data'])
 
             if meta['eos']: