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    USB: EHCI: use a bandwidth-allocation table · d0ce5c6b
    Alan Stern authored
    This patch significantly changes the scheduling code in ehci-hcd.
    Instead of calculating the current bandwidth utilization by trudging
    through the schedule and adding up the times used by the existing
    transfers, we will now maintain a table holding the time used for each
    of 64 microframes.  This will drastically speed up the bandwidth
    computations.
    
    In addition, it eliminates a theoretical bug.  An isochronous endpoint
    may have bandwidth reserved even at times when it has no transfers
    listed in the schedule.  The table will keep track of the reserved
    bandwidth, whereas adding up entries in the schedule would miss it.
    
    As a corollary, we can keep bandwidth reserved for endpoints even
    when they aren't in active use.  Eventually the bandwidth will be
    reserved when a new alternate setting is installed; for now the
    endpoint's reservation takes place when its first URB is submitted.
    
    A drawback of this approach is that transfers with an interval larger
    than 64 microframes will have to be charged for bandwidth as though
    the interval was 64.  In practice this shouldn't matter much;
    transfers with longer intervals tend to be rather short anyway (things
    like hubs or HID devices).
    
    Another minor drawback is that we will keep track of two different
    period and phase values: the actual ones and the ones used for
    bandwidth allocation (which are limited to 64).  This adds only a
    small amount of overhead: 3 bytes for each endpoint.
    
    The patch also adds a new debugfs file named "bandwidth" to display
    the information stored in the new table.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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