Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758560AbXEJI0k (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 04:26:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757135AbXEJI02 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 04:26:28 -0400 Received: from canuck.infradead.org ([209.217.80.40]:42760 "EHLO canuck.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755880AbXEJI01 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 04:26:27 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel From: David Woodhouse To: Andrew Morton Cc: Richard Purdie , LKML , torvalds@linux-foundation.org In-Reply-To: <20070509232129.371f49d5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <1178096183.5860.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070509232129.371f49d5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 09:26:16 +0100 Message-Id: <1178785576.28494.17.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 (2.10.1-4.fc7.dwmw2.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by canuck.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 744 Lines: 23 On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 23:21 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Well that's attractive-looking code. It's compression code. I've never seen compression code look nice :) > Why is this needed? What code plans to use it? I'm itching to use it in JFFS2. Richard claims a 10% boot time speedup and 40% improvement on file read speed, with only a slight drop in the file compression ratio (when compared to zlib). > How many buffer overruns are there in it? That I'm afraid I cannot tell you. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/