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Alan Stern authored
Following a suggestion of David Brownell's I have decided to remove support for the URB_NO_INTERRUPT flag in the UHCI driver. The overall effect of the flag is to reduce the number of interrupts, thereby improving throughput somewhat while increasing the duration of the remaining IRQ handlers quite a lot (i.e., increasing interrupt variance). So I think we're better off without it. Mind you, this is all in the absence of any firm measurements. A common case where this will come up is during usb-storage bulk transfers. Such transfers are generally divided into scatter-gather components each corresponding to a single URB and transferring one memory page (4 KB). While generating an interrupt for each one is a little faster than ideal -- about every 3 ms -- it's better than waiting until 64 KB has been transferred and there are 1024 individual TDs to clean up during the IRQ.
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