On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Venkatesh Srinivas <me@acm.jhu.edu> wrote:

> > Under certain situations, 9p can do some forms of pipelining.  The tagged
> > requests don't have to be waited on in order, for the next outgoing
> request
> > to be sent, unless there's a dependency of one completing before the
> other,
> > or the evaluation of completion of a previous one on another.
>
> Only if the file & file server involved are decent.
>
> -- vs
>
> Yes.  I think that's the definition of "decent", but I'm not really up to
date on that enough to converse about decency...