Re: [9fans] Dual dialing/forking sessions to increase 9P throughput

[ori@eigenstate.org]

Quoth Joe S <joe@lifesoftserv.com>:
> hiro:
>     The purpose of doing this was not to just access multiple parts of the file. I was working off the quote below.  Maybe a file server thats purpose is to mux parts of another file sounded like fun. My thoughts are that you could then transer thoes chunks on a single destination on seperate connections.
> 
> eg.
>     % mux -C 3 -F large.file
>     % tree.
>           ├── large.file
>           └── large.file.mux
>               ├── 1
>               ├── 2
>               └── 3
> 
> 1 directory, 4 files
> 
> Like I said though still learning though.

You don't need separate connections to transfer
chunks in parallel, you need multiple Tread
messages in flight at once. The only two ways
to do that on plan 9 is pread() from multiple
threads(procs) at once, either in an external
tool like fcp(1), or in the program itself.

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