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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Thu,  8 Nov 2007 11:33:12 -0500
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] From our "not quite grasping the concept" file
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> > are 9p mesages really the right vehicle for this?  9p messages
> > provides a serialized and in a standard byte order.  this requires
> > byte reordering (on intel) and copying.  but are these really needed?
> > the guest and host are on the same platform, so the guest can
> > pass pointers to the host.  for the same reason, integers don't need
> > reformatting.
> >
> 
> 9p is the right organizational structure.  The details of marshalling
> and pass-by-copy versus pass-by-reference are transport issues.  Lucho
> and I have been playing with zero-marhsalling/zero-copy transport
> variants of 9P for virtualized environments.
> 
>           -eric

perhaps i'm being too pedantic, but 9p is defined by how it marshals data.

- erik