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Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
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<EM>&gt;
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<EM>&gt; Hi,
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<EM>&gt; On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 12:13:23AM +0200, Oliver Rauch wrote:
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<EM>&gt; &gt; Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
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<EM>&gt; &gt; &gt; Same here. I looked at the scanning times when the backend does nothing but
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<EM>&gt; &gt; &gt; getting data from the scanner and ignoring it. There was no big change in
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<EM>&gt; &gt; &gt; scanning time (about 5 %). With the original SCSI adapter the Mustek
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<EM>&gt; &gt; &gt; scanners are about twice as slow as with Windows despite large (4 MB) SCSI
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<EM>&gt; &gt; &gt; buffers and tweaking the Linux SCSI driver.
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<EM>&gt; &gt;
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<EM>&gt; &gt; 4 MB images are not the problem of the umax backend.
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<EM>&gt; I am not talking about image size but about SCSI buffer size. With most
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<EM>&gt; Mustek scanners and the Mustek SCSI adapters the scan stops after each read
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<EM>&gt; command and backtracking occurs. So I am trying to scan with large buffers.
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<EM>&gt; Standard is 1 MB at the moment. The scan speed is dependant from the
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<EM>&gt; resolution and image with (but not from length).
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<P>Henning,
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Some info on Linux sg buffer sizes. DMA (used by most but not the very low
<BR>
end SCSI adapters) requires continuous buffers. [&quot;continuous&quot; seen from the
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PCI/ISA bus.] Linux actively discourages drivers taking big continuous
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buffers. So sg takes 32 KB chunks (controlled by the SG_SCATTER_SZ define
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in sg.h) and builds a scatter gather list. The adapter dictates the maximum
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number of the scatter gather list elements which is further limited to
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255 elements. So that makes the maximum size of sg's reserve buffer
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(or any single command) just under 8 Megabytes. You can double
<BR>
SG_SCATTER_SZ, rebuild sg and perhaps get that number up to just under
<BR>
16 Megabytes.
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<P>Another consideration is that adapters using the ISA bus can only
<BR>
use the bottom 16 Megabytes of memory on a machine. ISA sound
<BR>
cards and just normal OS processes tend to eat up that lower 16
<BR>
MB so it is unlikely sg will always be successful grabbing large
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amounts of that low memory. This is not a problem with PCI based
<BR>
adapters (normally: some early PCI cards didn't use the full 32
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bit address space).
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<P>Doug Gilbert
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