On Wed Apr 28 13:58:40 EDT 2010, news...@lava.net wrote: > > I admit I am surprised by how much a difference there is, it should > > be just Tread and Rread headers shouldn't it? > > If you have high latency or high bandwidth, the maximum message > size for the 9p messages will be too small to keep the pipe full > if you're using read serially. Did you take a look at how much > bandwith was actually in use during your tests?
unless you've got some sort of interrupt or cpu bottleneck, i don't see what message size has to do with this issue. the real issue is the # of messages outstanding. - erik