On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 12:04, David Brownell wrote:
> > Ok, it *can* be automatically resubmitted, but how?
> 
> Usually through linking urb->next fields in a ring.  
> 

Ah. So I submit a ring, using the ASAP flag for all of them. Their
frames point into, say, a ring buffer kept by the driver. Hm... and then
the user process which reads/writes to the head of the ring buffer just
continously races the urbs? Seems precarious.

> 
> Except that if you look at the mechanism for specifying a start frame,
> it seems a bit insufficient.  Frame counters roll over, but drivers don't
> know their range.And there's a limit to how far in the future transfers
> can be scheduled, which is not visible to drivers.
> 
> ASAP is the only behavior that's really workable with today's API.
> 

You mean the rollover point for a frame counter can vary from host to
host? I assumed the frame counter was always 11 bits.

How are ISO transfers supposed to be coordinated? I think I'm really
misunderstaning the model. I assumed that the Class Specs would indicate
some way for the host and device to agree on when they would start and
stop a "job". But maybe the concept of a "job" is totally unapplicable
to ISO. Maybe ISO is more like a wire that carries a signal. Once the
host sets a configuration which contains ISO endpoints, these wires are
all "hot" and "signal jitter" is up to the functions on either end to
deal with in their own way.

Thanks,

--gmcnutt


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