Re: OT: Why is usb data many times the cpu hog that firewire is?

H. Peter Anvin
2005-02-25T00:00:49Z

Followup to: <200502211216.35194.gene.heskett@verizon.net>
By author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Do I have something fubar in the usb? Or is this just the nature of
> the beast?
>

USB pretty much is fubar. It's a horrible protocol on pretty much
every level including the physical level.

-hpa