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ComputerGuruyesterday at 9:45 PM1 replyview on HN

USB doesn’t provide any DMA (until USB 4) and requires more host cpu resources to meet the same bandwidth. It also has less consistent performance by virtue of the USB protocol itself.


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mianosyesterday at 10:15 PM

I am confused by this, I worked on a Linux USB driver that used DMA in 2003.

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