Re: [linux-usb] mass storage performance is slow with Windows 7 host

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Hi,

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 07:37:34PM +0800, Xuebing Wang wrote:
> Hi Community,
> 
> I am developing a commercial product based on Freescale iMX6, which supports
> USB slave Mass Storage, command is:
> modprobe g_mass_storage file=/dev/mmcblk0p4
> 
> (it is one partition in eMMC, this partition is formatted as FAT32)
> (kernel version is 3.10.17, I did not try the latest mainline kernel)

well, with such an old kernel, you're really on your own.

> When connect device to Windows 7 host, performance is slow, it takes
> 1.5 minutes to copy a 180MB file to mass storage slave.

so here it takes 1.5 minutes.

> But, on MacOS, it takes less than 15 minutes to copy the same 180MB
> file.

and here it takes 15 minutes ? IMO, your problem is with Mac OS X, not
windows.

> Did anyone experience the same issue?
> 
> If this is still a known issue, I'd like to give this a try to improve
> mass storage performance when connecting to Windows host.

try setting nofua parameter. Windows always sets FUA bit (so all writes
are *always* flushed to non-volatile media), but telling mass storage
gadget to ignore FUA bit, you get better performance.

-- 
balbi

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