Re: USB 1.1 Full Speed OHCI slow/high latency

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On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 05:38:38PM +0300, ValdikSS wrote:
> On 22.09.2025 5:16 PM, Alan Stern wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 02:11:43AM +0300, ValdikSS wrote:
> > > Alan, Greg, I found the reason for 1 ms delay: it is artificial, added in
> > > v2.5.21 as a possible race condition fix:
> > 
> > Good work tracking that down!
> > 
> > > I removed "+ 1" and it removed that 1ms delay. Doesn't seem to break
> > > anything in my setup. UHCI code doesn't seem to have any similar delays.
> > > 
> > > Could it be relevant only for hardware of its era? If I add "no +1" code
> > > quirk as a module option, disabled by default, does it sounds sane to you?
> > 
> > I'm not sure that there is any OHCI hardware from later than that era.
> > But regardless...
> > 
> > Module options are frowned upon these days.  Instead you could add a
> > sysfs (or even debugfs) attribute file for controlling that "+ 1".
> 
> I just implemented another approach: do not unlink the ED right away,
> instead mark it IDLE and unlink only if no consecutive transfers are
> performed after the timeout. This still preserves one-frame delay while
> unlinking, should be safe.

That does indeed sound like a better approach.

> Please take a look if you have free time.

Feel free to post your patch on the mailing list for review.

>  I'm no kernel developer by any
> means :)

Seems like you're becoming one, like it or not!  Welcome to the 
community.

Alan Stern




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