On Nov 8, 2007 9:20 AM, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The opportunity still exists -- only one driver needs to implement
> > their numeric hack - 9p. Then the rest can be based off of that.
> > Unfortunately, evolution just comes slow and painful.
> >
> > -eric
>
> are 9p mesages really the right vehicle for this? 9p messages
> provides a serialized and in a standard byte order. this requires
> byte reordering (on intel) and copying. but are these really needed?
> the guest and host are on the same platform, so the guest can
> pass pointers to the host. for the same reason, integers don't need
> reformatting.
>
9p is the right organizational structure. The details of marshalling
and pass-by-copy versus pass-by-reference are transport issues. Lucho
and I have been playing with zero-marhsalling/zero-copy transport
variants of 9P for virtualized environments.
-eric
