Re: 2.6.11, USB: High latency?

[David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>]

On Wednesday 30 March 2005 5:32 pm, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 17:28 -0800, David Brownell wrote:
> > On Wednesday 30 March 2005 4:51 pm, Lee Revell wrote:
> > > 
> > > This is the exact configuration of one of the users who reported the
> > > problem on LAU.  Got a pointer to the patch?  And what's the issue with
> > > IN transfers?
> > 
> > This is what Greg just posted (and Linus merged into BK, so it'll be
> > in BK snapshots starting tomorrow):
> > 
> >   http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-usb-devel&m=111221966815043&w=2
> > 
> > The issue with IN transfers is that microframe scheduling is ... tricky.
> > ...
> 
> Thanks for the explanation.  I found this patch, and sent the link to
> the LAU posters with the problem.
> 
> There are apparently many users affected (some gave up and went back to
> 2.4), so there's good opportunity for testing.

Yes.  That's why I was particularly glad to see the patches from Karsten;
they were the first ones that actually got "it works for me now!!" reports.

With luck, all full speed ISO-OUT transfers will now work through EHCI.
Even through the funky multi-TT hubs from Cypress.  My main question is
whether this is also true of the TDI (nee ARC) EHCI silicon that's being
embedded in various non-PCI chips.

This all seems off-topic for latency though.  :)

- Dave


> > I'd like to see all that split ISO stuff working with EHCI, but someone
> > else is going to have to do most of the work.  Once it's working we can
> > take the CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL off, which will remove another source of
> > errors.  :)
> 
> Thanks again for your help, I'll report any interesting results.
> 
> Lee
> 
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