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Date:      Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:14:43 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>
Cc:        freebsd-usb@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: libusb performance on 8.1
Message-ID:  <6AD22899-0B00-483D-A01E-786029A82C9F@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <201101221433.23194.hselasky@c2i.net>
References:  <9CF6C32F-E230-446B-94FC-C57F0F02B0E4@gsoft.com.au> <201101221433.23194.hselasky@c2i.net>

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On 23/01/2011, at 24:03, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> You need to change the way you buffer the data. FreeBSD does not queue =
more=20
> than 2 URB's at any time, and the turnaround time varies from 1ms to =
125us due=20
> to hardware IRQ restrictions. Linux queues up all it can get, which =
leads to=20
> other kind of problems. The current internal buffer limit is 16Kbyte =
8000=20
> times per second which gives a MAX of 128 MByte/second.

How difficult would it be to increase this? I obviously don't need any =
more throughput, however my application is very sensitive to latency, as =
I am reading out of a fairly small FIFO and if it fills up my entire run =
has to be aborted.

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