Re: speeding up ugen by an order of magnitude.

From: Julian Elischer <julian_at_elischer.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 11:27:22 -0700 (PDT)
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <20040707091311.GE12877_at_cicely12.cicely.de>, Bernd Walter writes:
> >On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 04:32:28PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> >What about those options:
> >- limit the allocated memory to the user request so we don't take the
> >  whole 128k if not reuired.
> >- Do interleaving with 2 or more xfers if the read request is known to
> >  take more xfers.
> 
> I would consider ugen to be a primary candidate to use physio like
> I belive scsi-tape drives do ?


I believe that is a good candidate. I considerred this as an option
but I haven't looked to see how compaitble NetBSD physio still is with
our diverged physio. FOr reasns of future co-operation, I'd like to keep 
diffs to a minimum. As it is out USB code is VERY close to NetBSD except
for umass.c which is qiite different.

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