linux/drivers/usb
Johan Hovold 27c7acf220 USB: serial: reimplement generic fifo-based writes
Reimplement fifo-based writes in the generic driver using a multiple
pre-allocated urb scheme.

In contrast to multi-urb writes, no allocations (of urbs or buffers) are
made during run-time and there is less pressure on the host stack
queues as currently only two urbs are used (implementation is generic
and can handle more than two urbs as well, though).

Initial tests using ftdi_sio show that the implementation achieves the
same (maximum) throughput at high baudrates as multi-urb writes. The CPU
usage is much lower than for multi-urb writes for small write requests
and only slightly higher for large (e.g. 2k) requests (due to extra copy
via fifo?).

Also outperforms multi-urb writes for small write requests on an
embedded arm-9 system, where multi-urb writes are CPU-bound at high
baudrates (perf reveals that a lot of time is spent in the host stack
enqueue function -- could perhaps be a bug as well).

Keeping the original write_urb, buffer and flag for now as there are
other drivers depending on them.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-20 13:21:42 -07:00
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atm USB: ueagle: fix Coding Styles 2010-05-20 13:21:38 -07:00
c67x00 USB: make hcd.h public (drivers dependency) 2010-05-20 13:21:30 -07:00
class USB: rename usb_buffer_alloc() and usb_buffer_free() users 2010-05-20 13:21:38 -07:00
core USB: simplify usb_sg_init() 2010-05-20 13:21:42 -07:00
early USB: ehci-dbgp: split PID register updates for IN and OUT pipes 2010-03-02 14:54:58 -08:00
gadget USB gadget: Webcam device 2010-05-20 13:21:42 -07:00
host USB: isp1760: Use resource_size 2010-05-20 13:21:42 -07:00
image USB: BKL removal: mdc800 2010-03-02 14:54:27 -08:00
misc usb: sisusb_con.c: fix shadows sparse warning 2010-05-20 13:21:41 -07:00
mon USB: Change the scatterlist type in struct urb 2010-05-20 13:21:41 -07:00
musb usb: musb: add ulpi access operations 2010-05-20 13:21:36 -07:00
otg USB: omap: switch to subsys_initcall for isp1301 transceiver 2010-05-20 13:21:38 -07:00
serial USB: serial: reimplement generic fifo-based writes 2010-05-20 13:21:42 -07:00
storage USB: unusual-dev: Add bad sense flag for Appotech ax203 based picture frames 2010-05-20 13:21:41 -07:00
wusbcore USB: remove uses of URB_NO_SETUP_DMA_MAP 2010-05-20 13:21:31 -07:00
Kconfig Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6 2010-03-03 08:48:58 -08:00
Makefile USB: MXC: Add i.MX21 specific USB host controller driver. 2010-03-02 14:52:55 -08:00
README USB: fix directory references in usb/README 2007-11-28 13:58:34 -08:00
usb-skeleton.c USB: rename usb_buffer_alloc() and usb_buffer_free() users 2010-05-20 13:21:38 -07:00

To understand all the Linux-USB framework, you'll use these resources:

    * This source code.  This is necessarily an evolving work, and
      includes kerneldoc that should help you get a current overview.
      ("make pdfdocs", and then look at "usb.pdf" for host side and
      "gadget.pdf" for peripheral side.)  Also, Documentation/usb has
      more information.

    * The USB 2.0 specification (from www.usb.org), with supplements
      such as those for USB OTG and the various device classes.
      The USB specification has a good overview chapter, and USB
      peripherals conform to the widely known "Chapter 9".

    * Chip specifications for USB controllers.  Examples include
      host controllers (on PCs, servers, and more); peripheral
      controllers (in devices with Linux firmware, like printers or
      cell phones); and hard-wired peripherals like Ethernet adapters.

    * Specifications for other protocols implemented by USB peripheral
      functions.  Some are vendor-specific; others are vendor-neutral
      but just standardized outside of the www.usb.org team.

Here is a list of what each subdirectory here is, and what is contained in
them.

core/		- This is for the core USB host code, including the
		  usbfs files and the hub class driver ("khubd").

host/		- This is for USB host controller drivers.  This
		  includes UHCI, OHCI, EHCI, and others that might
		  be used with more specialized "embedded" systems.

gadget/		- This is for USB peripheral controller drivers and
		  the various gadget drivers which talk to them.


Individual USB driver directories.  A new driver should be added to the
first subdirectory in the list below that it fits into.

image/		- This is for still image drivers, like scanners or
		  digital cameras.
../input/	- This is for any driver that uses the input subsystem,
		  like keyboard, mice, touchscreens, tablets, etc.
../media/	- This is for multimedia drivers, like video cameras,
		  radios, and any other drivers that talk to the v4l
		  subsystem.
../net/		- This is for network drivers.
serial/		- This is for USB to serial drivers.
storage/	- This is for USB mass-storage drivers.
class/		- This is for all USB device drivers that do not fit
		  into any of the above categories, and work for a range
		  of USB Class specified devices. 
misc/		- This is for all USB device drivers that do not fit
		  into any of the above categories.