On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 10:20:49AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > I am undecided. Here are the issues: > > 1. Will people have lots of devices hooked directly into a > root hub? If yes, then something like the patch I sent > before would be good (handle multiple ports on a single > hub in parallel). > > 2. Will people have lots of external hubs? If yes, then it > would be better to start up several khubd threads (handle > multiple hubs in parallel).
I think this has the best chance for speedups on large systems with lots of hubs. > 3. Would a combination of 1 & 2 be better than either alone? Possibly. > 4. Is the payoff too small? Maybe it would be best to do > nothing at all. No, I'd like to have something as it's just too annoying when one device or driver hangs and takes the whole rest of the usb scanning down with it. Any way to make this more robust is a good idea. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
