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<H1>Re: scsi command queuing</H1>
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Hi,
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<P>On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 05:26:23PM +0200, Oliver Rauch wrote:
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<EM>&gt; has someone experience with a sane backend and scsi command queueing?
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<P>I have tried this some weeks ago without much success. To be exact: it is
<BR>
possible to send more than one scsi_req_enter before scsi_req_wait and there
<BR>
is no problem with this. But it isn't faster than waiting for each request
<BR>
and then sending the next. I haven't looked deeply into the code (and I
<BR>
don't understand much of SCSI) but the following lines looked suspicous:
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(in scsi_rq_wait())
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;/* Now issue next command asap, if any. We can't do this
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;earlier since the Linux kernel has space for just one big
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;buffer. */
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;issue (req-&gt;next);
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<P>So if I understand this correctly the scsi_req_enter only shedules the
<BR>
request and it will be sent to the driver whenever any pending request is
<BR>
finished. Maybe the &quot;Linux can only use one big buffer&quot; is history with the
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newer sg drivers?
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<P><EM>&gt; Unfortunetly it does not speed up scanning large images. It really looks like
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<EM>&gt; the comunication via the scsi bus is not fast enough.
</EM><BR>
<P>Same here. I looked at the scanning times when the backend does nothing but
<BR>
getting data from the scanner and ignoring it. There was no big change in
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scanning time (about 5 %). With the original SCSI adapter the Mustek
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scanners are about twice as slow as with Windows despite large (4 MB) SCSI
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buffers and tweaking the Linux SCSI driver.
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<P>Bye,
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&nbsp;&nbsp;Henning
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