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Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:23:06 +0200 From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org> To: Markus Rechberger <mrechberger@...il.com> Cc: "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...e.de>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Increase usbfs bulk buffer size Am Mittwoch, 17. August 2011, 19:44:16 schrieb Markus Rechberger: > I understand that USBFS is not 100% optimized, although we are already > using 3-4 times that much buffer with isochronous and it was working > fine for years so far as long as the system doesn't run out of memory > .. but even kerneldrivers would have issues with it in such a > situation. The problem is not what happens on your test system dedicated to this use. There it'll work. But you allowed everybody else to make the kernel request the second largest chunk of memory there is. On a otherwise busy system with fragmented memory this is not good. As I said, you want scatter/gather if you need this. There still would be the problem with the API, but if this is really a problem, you could define a new ioctl() Regards Oliver -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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