linux-kernel - Re: [Patch] Increase USBFS Bulk Transfer size

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Date:	Fri, 14 Oct 2011 08:33:29 -0600
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	Markus Rechberger <mrechberger@...il.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch] Increase USBFS Bulk Transfer size

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 10:05:41AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> No, a much better approach is to remove all limits on individual
> transfer sizes and instead have a global limit on the total amount of
> all usbfs buffers in use at any time.  Maybe something like 16 MB; at 
> SuperSpeed, that's about about 30 ms worth of data.

That sounds quite reasonable.

greg k-h
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