On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 6 Oct 2015, Felipe Balbi wrote: > >> >> In my experience, you need to do at least the following to get max >> >> performance from the mass storage gadget: >> >> >> >> - Use Windows 8 or higher on the host. It's much faster than Linux. > > Why is Windows so much faster? Or to put it another way, why is Linux > slow? How can we improve things? I don't know. We were doing our performance demos using Windows, so we never looked into why Linux was slower. But I do know the Microsoft engineers put some effort into tuning their stack for good performance at USB 3.0 speeds. I don't think anyone has done that for Linux yet. -- Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
