On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Alan Stern <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2012, Ming Lei wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Alan Stern <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > The results will be more impressive if you plug three of the hubs
>> > directly into the fourth and attach the fourth hub to the computer.
>>
>> See all the logs in the below link for the test case above.
>>
>>            http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~ming/kernel/usb/hub/
>>
>> Hope the test can eliminate your concern on the problem.
>
> No, it doesn't.  Your results were distorted by the fact that the 1-2.1
> device wasn't a hub and consequently had a 2-second autosuspend
> timeout.  Try setting its timeout to 0 (pretend it's a hub) and see

Yes, 1-2.1 is a built-in usbnet device, but there are four hubs, and 3 are
connected into another one.

> what happens.

'lsusb' is still OK even the autosuspend_delay of 1-2.1 is set as zero.

>
> Even in this test, the root hub was resumed and suspended 3 times
> instead of only once.
>
>> IMO, the only effect is that 'lsusb' becomes a bit slow, :-)
>
> It also wastes power by suspending and resuming devices multiple times.
> The purpose of the autosuspend mechanism is to save power, not to waste
> it.

It depends on the use frequency of 'lsusb', doesn't it?

Thanks,
--
Ming Lei
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