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From: Roman Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com>
To: weigelt@metux.de,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] OLE vs. 9P
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:45:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1199997953.4308.475.camel@work.sfbay.sun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080110021656.GA26347@nibiru.local>

On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 03:16 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> > The trickiest part seems to be exploring locality for the mapped 
> > rendering (imagine a multimedia plugin displaying an HD movie).
> 
> Those things require special interfaces, which tunnel streams 
> through 9P. Maybe something like mjpeg with timestamps.

  I don't think tunneling will get you very far. In this particular
case you really need to exploit locality and get to do DMA to the
device or the like. The tricky portion is arbitrating such resources.

Thanks,
Roman.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-10 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-07 18:44 Enrico Weigelt
2008-01-07 20:14 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-01-08 18:31   ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-01-09 20:46     ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-01-10  2:16       ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-01-10 10:36         ` Sergey Zhilkin
2008-01-11  0:54           ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-01-10 20:45         ` Roman Shaposhnik [this message]

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