On 04/04/2010 05:25 PM, Paul Brook wrote:
Looks like the tablet is set to 100 Hz polling rate. We may be able
to get away with 30 Hz or even less (ep_bInterval, in ms, in
hw/usb-wacom.c).
Changing the USB tablet polling interval from 10ms to 100ms in both
hw/usb-wacom.c and hw/usb-hid.c made no difference except the an increase
in bInterval shown in lsusb -v in the guest and the hint of jerky mouse
movement I expected from setting this value so high. A similar change to
the polling interval for the keyboard and mouse also made no difference to
their performance impact.
The USB HID devices implement the SET_IDLE command, so the polling interval
will have no real effect on performance.
On a Linux guest (F12), I see 125 USB interrupts per second with no
mouse movement, so something is broken (on the guest or host).
My guess is that the overhead you're seeing is entirely from the USB host
adapter having to wake up and check the transport descriptor lists. This will
only result in the guest being woken if a device actually responds (as
mentioned above it should not).
A quick profile on the host side doesn't show this. Instead, I see a
lot of select() overhead. Surprising as there are ~10 descriptors being
polled, so ~1200 polls per second. Maybe epoll will help here.
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