On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 07:17:31PM +0100, Markus Rechberger wrote: > 1. the memset on isochronous transfers to empty the buffers in order > to avoid leaking raw memory to userspace (this costs a lot on intel > Atoms and is also noticeable on other systems). > > 2. the memory fragmentation. Seems like recent systems have a better > performance here since we did not get that report for several months > now, or maybe the user behavior changed. > Some older Linux systems (maybe 2-3 years old) triggered this issue > way more often.
I guess if we get transparent zerocopy, both of these are going away just like with your patch, right? The only difference is really who sets up the memory area (the kernel or not). Alan, could we perhaps let the zerocopy flag make the request fail (instead of going through a bounce buffer) if direct DMA is not possible? That way, it would be quite obvious that you need to allocate the memory some other way instead of silently hitting the issues Markus mention. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: https://www.sesse.net/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
