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...