Comment 40 for bug 709245

Hi Ming-Lei -

What I like about your explanation is it allows cache status to be the communication path for network traffic to impact the issue, ie network activity finally spills the cache that does update the qtd descriptor and then we get less deadtime. That sounds very good to me.

I'm using this tree

http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=people/andygreen/kernel-tilt.git;a=patch;h=7021a2ea35d0b0f96e6c5a753312c26466919efd

Your patch

http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=people/andygreen/kernel-tilt.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/tilt-linux-linaro-3.0

I realized I do have a USB HDD here. I will try that as well in case the USB flash drive is the limiting factor.