Re: just curious

[Kip Macy <kmacy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> One thing that might be harder: I was looking to reduce the effect of 
> the boundary crossing by taking a series of independent system calls and 
> queuing them up and tossing them over the boundary together. That way 
> you would be able to, for example, queue writes to multiple files, 
> devices, or sockets in a single system call.
>
> But now that I think of it you could implement a Send() function that 
> did the same thing.

I think implementing support for multiple requests is much easier than
exporting it under a normal API. NFS has a similar sort of problem with 
latency, which NFSv4 tries to address with compound. However, there 
isn't really any support on clients for say stat file x - if it has 
changed read bytes i - j and then write z to byte k.

           -Kip