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<H1>Re: scsi command queuing</H1>
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<STRONG>From:</STRONG> Douglas Gilbert (<A HREF="mailto:dgilbert@interlog.com?Subject=Re:%20scsi%20command%20queuing&In-Reply-To=<395D347B.1E05897C@interlog.com>"><EM>dgilbert@interlog.com</EM></A>)<BR>
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<STRONG>Date:</STRONG> Fri Jun 30 2000 - 16:59:55 PDT
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Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
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<EM>> Hi,
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<EM>> On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 12:13:23AM +0200, Oliver Rauch wrote:
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<EM>> > Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
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<EM>> > > Same here. I looked at the scanning times when the backend does nothing but
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<EM>> > > getting data from the scanner and ignoring it. There was no big change in
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<EM>> > > scanning time (about 5 %). With the original SCSI adapter the Mustek
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<EM>> > > scanners are about twice as slow as with Windows despite large (4 MB) SCSI
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<EM>> > > buffers and tweaking the Linux SCSI driver.
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<EM>> > 4 MB images are not the problem of the umax backend.
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<EM>> I am not talking about image size but about SCSI buffer size. With most
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<EM>> Mustek scanners and the Mustek SCSI adapters the scan stops after each read
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<EM>> command and backtracking occurs. So I am trying to scan with large buffers.
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<EM>> Standard is 1 MB at the moment. The scan speed is dependant from the
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<EM>> resolution and image with (but not from length).
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<P>Henning,
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Some info on Linux sg buffer sizes. DMA (used by most but not the very low
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end SCSI adapters) requires continuous buffers. ["continuous" seen from the
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PCI/ISA bus.] Linux actively discourages drivers taking big continuous
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buffers. So sg takes 32 KB chunks (controlled by the SG_SCATTER_SZ define
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in sg.h) and builds a scatter gather list. The adapter dictates the maximum
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number of the scatter gather list elements which is further limited to
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255 elements. So that makes the maximum size of sg's reserve buffer 
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(or any single command) just under 8 Megabytes. You can double 
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SG_SCATTER_SZ, rebuild sg and perhaps get that number up to just under 
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16 Megabytes.
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<P>Another consideration is that adapters using the ISA bus can only
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use the bottom 16 Megabytes of memory on a machine. ISA sound
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cards and just normal OS processes tend to eat up that lower 16
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MB so it is unlikely sg will always be successful grabbing large
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amounts of that low memory. This is not a problem with PCI based 
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adapters (normally: some early PCI cards didn't use the full 32
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<P>Doug Gilbert
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