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

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On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:25:22AM -0500, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> 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.

At the expense of possibly loosing your data if you loose power, so
ignore it at your own peril :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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