Re: [PATCH 14/16] USB: Add usbfs ioctl to get the frame number

Laurent Pinchart <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Tue, 15 May 2007, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > I was just wondering if the USB host controller issued an interrupt when
> > sending an SOF token. If so, it would be quite easy to store the current
> > host timestamp there. If not, I'll live with it.
>
> It can if you want it to.  Most of the time we don't want it.  Imagine
> trying to live with an interrupt request each and every millisecond!
> (Or 8 interrupts every millisecond for high-speed.)

That would be a power saving nightware. I guess all dynticks developers would 
kill me :-)

I'll for for statistical processing on the SOF counter and host timestamp 
values then.

Laurent Pinchart

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