[Libdlo] [PATCH] udlfb: high-throughput urb pool

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Fri Dec 17 12:34:09 PST 2010


On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 02:17:34PM -0600, Andrew Kephart wrote:
> udlfb: add parameters for URB pool size and for nonblocking URB pool
> 
> For high-throughput usage (e.g. mplayer -vo fbdev), more than 4 URBs may
> be needed to keep the pipeline fed.  This patch adds a module parameter
> for specifying the initial depth of the URB pool.  This patch also adds
> a boolean module parameter that enables a "nowait" mode, wherein no
> semaphore is used (only the spinlock is needed for list coherency). 

Ick, no, don't use a module parameter for this, just get it right the
first time (make it big) and leave it at that.

thanks,

greg k-h


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