Re: mass storage behaviour

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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
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