[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/4] usb: Introduce Xen pvUSB backend
On 03/04/2015 04:27 PM, Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 02:31:08PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:On 03/02/2015 12:39 PM, David Vrabel wrote:On 26/02/15 13:35, Juergen Gross wrote:Introduces the Xen pvUSB backend. With pvUSB it is possible for a Xen domU to communicate with a USB device assigned to that domU. The communication is all done via the pvUSB backend in a driver domain (usually Dom0) which is owner of the physical device.Why do we need a kernel usb backend instead of a user-space one using libusb?Good question. At a first glance libusb seems to offer most/all needed interfaces. The main question is whether performance with libusb will be okay. There will be one additional copy of the I/O data needed if I've read the code in drivers/usb/core/devio.c correctly.You can drive USB devices at line speed using libusb just fine. Try it out and see please, processors copy data _very_ fast these days. Okay, thanks for the information. I'll take this as a hint to try the user space variant. :-) Juergen _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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