From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20101115032531.GB27578@opal.ai.ki> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 07:57:16 -0800 Message-ID: From: David Leimbach To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016368e1f61868ace0495197e4f Subject: Re: [9fans] 9p vs http Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7f067364-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --0016368e1f61868ace0495197e4f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Venkatesh Srinivas 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... --0016368e1f61868ace0495197e4f Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Venkate= sh Srinivas <me@acm.= jhu.edu> wrote:
> Under certain situations, 9p can do some forms of pi= pelining. =A0The tagged
> requests don't have to be waited on in order, for the next outgoin= g request
> to be sent, unless there's a dependency of one completing before t= he other,
> or the evaluation of completion of a previous one on another.

Only if the file & file server involved are decent.

-- vs

Yes. =A0I think that's the definition of &= quot;decent", but I'm not really up to date on that enough to conv= erse about decency... =A0=A0

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