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Faster USB Performance For xHCI DbC Coming With Linux 6.14 Plus A 10 Year Old Bug Fixed


Thanks to work from Intel engineers, the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle will feature faster USB xHCI DbC performance for debug performance and a few other missing xHCI bits being addressed

The xhci: dbgtty: Improve performance by handling received data immediately patch is a bit more invasive reworking around one hundred lines of code in total to xhci-dbgtty and notes:"Improve dbc transfer rate performance by copying the received data to the tty buffer directly in the request complete callback function if possible. In addition to those exciting performance improvements for xHCI DbC, there is also a fix queued up for a ten year old Linux kernel bug. About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience.

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