Dear Pete,

 Thanks a  lot for providing me this information. I
will try to backport
from
 2.6.12 to 2.6.4.
 Also, for compiling USBMON 3.0 version, it need JDK
1.5.0, I could not find
 this in the Java
 web site. Would you please provide me the link to
download JDK 1.5

 Regards,
 Upadhyaya
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Pete Zaitcev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "SRINIVASA UPADHYAYA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 11:27 PM
> Subject: Re: Data transfer - How?
>
>
> > On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 04:19:21 -0700 (PDT) SRINIVASA
UPADHYAYA
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > I am trying to port USBMon, that was developed
by
> > > David Harding, from linux 2.4 to linux 2.6.4.
[...]
> >
> > What for? I already have Harding's USBMon running
with usbmon in 2.6.12.
> > Please refer to materials at
> >  http://people.redhat.com/zaitcev/linux/
> > It should be much easier to backport usbmon from
2.6.12 to 2.6.4 than
> > to bother with the Harding's patch.
> >
> > That said, the following is a problem for usbmon
as well, and there's
> > nothing in 2.6.12 to address it:
> >
> > > In linux 2.4.4 the data was transferred to and
from the device using
> > > urb->transfer_buffer. But in linux 2.4.6, it
looks like  most of the
> time
> > > the address pointed by urb->transfer_buffer is
NULL and data transfer
> > > happens via DMA using urb->tansfer_dma.
Following is the trace that I
> > > captured while analysis. []
> >
> > The only solution that I see is to use pkmap to
map the page temporarily
> > using an atomic map. I did not look too close into
it, so I do not know
> > if one of exising pkmap pages can be used or if
you need a new one.
> > This may be a significant performance hit,
depending on the speed
> > of the device in question and the block size.
> >
> > I welcome patches.
> >
> > -- Pete
> >
>



                
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