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Date:      Wed, 7 Jul 2004 11:27:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        FreeBSD current users <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: speeding up ugen by an order of magnitude. 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0407071122290.80217-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <33631.1089191774@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <20040707091311.GE12877@cicely12.cicely.de>, Bernd Walter writes:
> >On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 04:32:28PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> >What about those options:
> >- limit the allocated memory to the user request so we don't take the
> >  whole 128k if not reuired.
> >- Do interleaving with 2 or more xfers if the read request is known to
> >  take more xfers.
> 
> I would consider ugen to be a primary candidate to use physio like
> I belive scsi-tape drives do ?


I believe that is a good candidate. I considerred this as an option
but I haven't looked to see how compaitble NetBSD physio still is with
our diverged physio. FOr reasns of future co-operation, I'd like to keep 
diffs to a minimum. As it is out USB code is VERY close to NetBSD except
for umass.c which is qiite different.

> 
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