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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] fs performance
Date: Sun,  9 Jan 2011 16:59:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8b7978fc1882cac9d7511deaf3f179ab@ladd.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110109211753.79CFB5B42@mail.bitblocks.com>

> - other local optimizations (does plan9 pay marshalling,
>   unmarshalling cost for node local communication?)

not unless it hits the mount driver.  since a user level fs is
a 9p server, it is clear that io must go through the mnt driver
and kernel fileservers or pipes need not.

> - pushing performance sensitive code into kernel (to reduce
>   context switches).

i never understood the point of plan 9 to be to hold
the performance crown at all costs.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-09 21:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-09 17:06 erik quanstrom
2011-01-09 17:29 ` ron minnich
2011-01-09 17:51   ` John Floren
2011-01-10 18:07     ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2011-01-10 18:48       ` hiro
2011-01-10 19:06         ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-10 19:53         ` John Floren
2011-01-11 11:33           ` hiro
2011-01-09 18:31   ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-09 19:54   ` Bakul Shah
2011-01-09 20:25     ` ron minnich
2011-01-09 20:47       ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-09 21:04         ` ron minnich
2011-01-09 21:17       ` Bakul Shah
2011-01-09 21:59         ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2011-01-09 22:58         ` Charles Forsyth
2011-01-09 22:55           ` ron minnich
2011-01-09 23:50             ` Charles Forsyth
2011-01-10  3:26           ` Bakul Shah
2011-01-09 21:14     ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-09 21:38       ` Bakul Shah
2011-01-09 21:56         ` ron minnich
2011-01-09 22:02           ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-10 14:45           ` David Leimbach
2011-01-10 15:06             ` Charles Forsyth
2011-01-09 22:00         ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-10  3:57 erik quanstrom

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