> If you think about it, a single 9p connection is a multiplexed stream > for managing file I/O requests. What john's work did is to create an > individual stream for each file. And, as Andrey's results and John's > results show, it can be a win. The existence of readahead supports the > idea that some form of streaming might work well in even the local > area.
however, i think we could do even better by modifying devmnt to keep more than 1 outstanding message per channel, as a mount option. each 9p connection can stream without the overhead of seperate connections. this is the stragegy used by aoe. - erik
