On 7/10/05, Tim Newsham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > we have been trying and failing to get the xen guys interested in 9p as
> > the backbone comms for inter-domain communication in Xen, both dom0->domU
> > and domU->domU.
>
> I think it would be a hard sell. You'd still want to have something
> like a shared memory queue to exchange messages but on top of
> that you'd have a rather large amount of 9p machinery.
>
Remember that the shared memory is just one piece of the Xen comms -
they've got all this other cruft for different device classes and bus
provisioning. That is what we are talking about replacing with 9P -
and while I'm not certain, I think its a pretty good bet that 9P will
end up being more compact that the other cruft and better suited to
transport over different networks when/where necessary.
-eric
