libusb performance on 8.1

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 28/01/2011, at 18:28, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> For this kind of applications ISOCHRONOUS transfers should be used. Then you 
> can have a double buffer guard in the range 1-56ms, regardless of the buffer 
> size the hardware uses.

That sounds nice :)
I am trying to get it working at the moment, however I'm only finding it capable of 4 or 8 Mb/sec (512 or 1024 byte EP), although perhaps I don't understand how to do ISO transfer properly.

BTW do you have a feel for the latency in bulk vs iso? I currently have 5-10 msec of buffering in the hardware which I plan on increasing but I'm not sure what a reasonable amount would be :)

I put a logic analyser on my board and it shows fairly regular requests from the hardware (16kbyte bursts every 2msec or so) however I see glitches occasionally - 5.5ms, 7.5ms. 

I am not sure if they are attributable to userland scheduling (in which case writing a kernel driver should help) or some subtlety in USB itself.

Thanks :)
 
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