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From: Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] usbether
Date: Mon,  1 Oct 2012 20:20:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <868c557b9825d7f054aa7e77fe90cd60@hamnavoe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1c5584910a3ef640f8f4a6510a0e2aa4@kw.quanstro.net>

> of course the 64bit question is, which queue is dropping packets.
> there are so many to choose from.

Looks my initial guess was wrong.  I added some readahead to the kernel
usb driver and that didn't help at all.  Then I reduced the device's
buffering ("burst factor"), and increased the intermediate buffering
between input and output processes in the generic part of the usb/ether
driver.  That seems to have done the trick: no more dropped packets.

That's with the raspberry pi built-in usb ether.  My asix-based ethernet
dongle doesn't work any better on an x86 host; but at least it doesn't
work any worse.  Geoff has pushed the new usb/ether code onto sources.
Anybody who is actually using usb/ether - could you try the new version
and let us know if we've broken yours?




  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-01 19:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-29 16:16 Richard Miller
2012-09-29 16:39 ` Gorka Guardiola
2012-09-29 17:03   ` erik quanstrom
2012-09-29 18:01     ` Richard Miller
2012-09-29 18:19       ` Gorka Guardiola
2012-09-29 18:24         ` Richard Miller
2012-09-29 21:38           ` Gorka Guardiola
2012-09-29 21:46             ` Richard Miller
2012-09-29 21:48               ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-01 19:20                 ` Richard Miller [this message]
2012-09-30  9:20               ` Charles Forsyth
2012-09-30 10:24                 ` Richard Miller
2012-09-30 13:54                   ` Charles Forsyth
2012-09-29 18:41       ` erik quanstrom
2012-09-29 19:49         ` Charles Forsyth
2012-09-30 23:29 ` Tristan

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