> It probably will be significantly less. We have buffer size issues with
> usbfs and libusb.
> 
> Older versions of libusb used the synchronous bulk read/write calls and
> those were limited to a page size. We've since switched to using
> asynchronous, URB based calls, which allow us buffer sizes of up to
> 16KB, but I think that will still limit us to quite a bit under 30MB/s.
> 
> We can go even further by using multiple URBs and queuing them, but
> libusb doesn't currently do that.

Hi Johannes, maybe it should allocate multiple pages and then use scatter-gather
io out of them.  That avoids having to allocate large contiguous lumps of kernel
memory, and should also be good for performance.

Ciao,

Duncan.


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