On Nov 8, 2007 8:33 AM, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 > > perhaps i'm being too pedantic, but 9p is defined by how it marshals data.
You guys lost me. The header fields are in a certain byte order, but when did the data start being byte-reordered? Have I been missing this reordering all these years? I sure never implemented it in my code ... which worked fine between Alpha and x86. ron
