> But although the problem is the same, I believe the driver in question > isn't the one I have been looking at recently. The posted code snippet > was from the NCM gadget driver (drivers/usb/gadget/f_ncm.c), isn't that > right Jim?
Yes this is the NCM Gadget driver. > > Yes, judging by this discussion I guess we should unconditionally copy > instead of cloning in these drivers. We'll always have bad > payload/truesize ratio for cloned skbs, often less than 1/10 even for > max size payload. > > Actually, I thought we already did copy in the host cdc_ncm driver. But > I was wrong. I was thinking of the cdc_mbim driver (which is different > enough to have its own implementation of this part of the rx code). The > cdc_ncm driver is cloning and the cdc_mbim driver is copying. So we're > not even consistent... > > I'll create and test a patch for the cdc_ncm host driver unless someone > else wants to do that. I haven't really played with the gadget driver > before, so I'd prefer if someone knowing it (Jim maybe?) could take care > of it. If not, then I can always make an attempt using dummy_hcd to > test it. I can create a patch for the host driver, I will issue the gadget patch first to resolve any issues, the fix would be similar. > > BTW, wrt the data rates: These drivers are USB class drivers and we > should really think of *all* possible rates, even future ones. This is > not limited to 480 Mbps USB2. AFAICS, there isn't anything preventing > the gadget driver from being used with e.g. a USB3380 controller to > create a 5 Gbps NCM device. I'm sure the future will bring us even > faster USB devices. The drivers will be the same. Which is sort of > beautiful and scaring at the same time :-) > > But I assume the bad payload/truesize ratio is the most important factor > here, so we should still copy? I will test the copy implementation for any performance impact. Jim -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
