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SubjectRe: [linux-usb-devel] USB performance bug since kernel 2.6.13 (CRITICAL???)
On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Open Source wrote:

> Hi Wolfgang (and all),
>
> Thanks for the input. However, I am not understanding
> exactly why kernel mode is treated any differently than
> user mode for this sort of thing. I am looking at the code
> in ehci-q.c and ehci-hcd.c.
>
> It seems like the unlinking of completed URBs
> happens asynchronously on a timer. This is a
> surprise to me since I thought this was happening
> on an IRQ from the host controller. But if what I'm
> surmising is correct it would explain everything
> I am seeing. I'm not able to ascertain how
> user mode drivers are treated differently than
> kernel mode drivers in this regard. From what I
> can tell, all drivers would be broken equally!
> Can anyone who has more experience
> with this code confirm this for me?

I don't think so. You must be mis-reading the code. The only timers used
in ehci-hcd are a couple of watchdogs; they shouldn't affect the normal
URB completions which occur within ehci_work(), called by ehci_irq().

What Wolfgang meant was that user processes are subject to unpredictable
delays from all kinds of sources.

Alan Stern

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