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This patch introduces a new approach to allocating and managing Tx URBs that contributes to improving driver throughput and reducing CPU load. A pool of Tx URBs is created during driver instantiation. A URB is allocated from the pool when there is data to transmit. The URB is released back to the pool when the data has been transmitted by the device. 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. SKBs to be transmitted are added to a pending queue for processing. The driver tracks the available Tx URB buffer space and copies as much pending data as possible into each free URB. Each full URB is then submitted to the USB host controller for transmission. Signed-off-by: John Efstathiades <john.efstathiades@pebblebay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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