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This patch introduces a new approach to allocating and managing Rx URBs that contributes to improving driver throughput and reducing CPU load. A pool of Rx URBs is created during driver instantiation. All the URBs are initially submitted to the USB host controller for processing. The default URB buffer size is different for each USB bus speed. The chosen sizes provide good USB utilisation with little impact on overall packet latency. Completed URBs are processed in the driver bottom half. The URB buffer contents are copied to a dynamically allocated SKB, which is then passed to the network stack. The URB is then re-submitted to the USB host controller. NOTE: the call to skb_copy() in rx_process() that copies the URB contents to a new SKB is a temporary change to make this patch work in its own right. This call will be removed when the NAPI processing is introduced by patch 6 in this patch set. Signed-off-by: John Efstathiades <john.efstathiades@pebblebay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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