Thread (14 messages) 14 messages, 8 authors, 2008-04-03

Re: Real time USB2Serial devices and behaivor

From: Alan Stern <hidden>
Date: 2008-03-27 02:58:49
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On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Greg KH wrote:
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Is there any reason to think that if I created my own isochronous
USB2Serial adapter and iso-usb-driver that I couldn't get determinism?
I strongly doubt it as others have tried and failed in the past.
I don't understand.  Isochronous transfers have pretty strict 
transfer-time guarantees.  Why wouldn't this work?

One reason I can think of is that Iso transfers aren't reliable.  But
then regular RS232-type serial transfers aren't reliable either.

The only other reason is that the USB stack itself has an unpredictable 
amount of overhead.  However I think it should fall within an 
acceptable range for RT applications.

Alan Stern

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