This does not work for USB. For consumer scanners USB is becomming
more and more important, also the cheaper a scanner is, the more
has to be done in software. Running two processes, one to get the
data and the other one to process the data seems to be the ideal
solution to improve the throughput.
So I'll pass on this one.
Karl Heinz
Oliver Rauch <oliver.rauch@rauch-domain.de> said:
> Karl Heinz Kremer wrote:
> >
> > I am in the process of adding a reader thread to the EPSON backend.
> > I noticed that the library module sanei-thread does some of the
> > work that's necessary to create a reader process in a somehow
> > cross-platform way (at least for any OS that supports fork() and
> > OS/2). I also noticed that no backend is using these functions.
> > What's the status of this module?
>
> I thought about the reader_process thing and I think there is a
> chance that we do not need it:
> most (all?) scsi controller drivers (and some controllers in hardware)
> do support scsi command queueing. When the queueing is done with
> 2 scsi read commands and 2 scsi buffers who are handled a bit smart
> in sane_read() we (may be) do not need the reader_process
> and may be get better performence because we do not need the
> pipe between the reader_process and the main process.
>
> May be you like to try this idea.
>
> Bye
> Oliver
>
>
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