Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933536AbXEMNIg (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 09:08:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759813AbXEMNIX (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 09:08:23 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:38158 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759803AbXEMNIW (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 09:08:22 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jindrich Makovicka Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 15:06:34 +0200 Message-ID: <20070513150634.2b7ba461@holly> References: <1783772957@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: kmlinux.fjfi.cvut.cz In-Reply-To: <1783772957@web.de> X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 827 Lines: 18 On Fri, 11 May 2007 22:48:15 +0200 devzero@web.de wrote: > >Why is this needed? What code plans to use it? > > it`s pretty useful because it`s and a damn fast and damn cpu friendly > compression alorithm. > > afaik, there is already a least one linux kernel-feature (under > development) which is using lzo compression: see compressed caching > project at http://linux-mm.org/CompressedCaching & > http://linuxcompressed.sourceforge.net/ Reiser4.1 (still in development) uses LZO compression too and it brings a significant boost on dual core machines. -- Jindrich Makovicka - 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/