Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759022AbXE1Pn6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 May 2007 11:43:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751082AbXE1Pnv (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 May 2007 11:43:51 -0400 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:46976 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750746AbXE1Pnu (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 May 2007 11:43:50 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 17:43:46 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Nitin Gupta Cc: Daniel Hazelton , lkml , linux-mm-cc@laptop.org, linuxcompressed-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Andrew Morton , Richard Purdie , Bret Towe , Satyam Sharma Subject: Re: [RFC] LZO de/compression support - take 6 Message-ID: <20070528154346.GO3899@stusta.de> References: <4cefeab80705280734i37df1742k6738cd4200813684@mail.gmail.com> <4cefeab80705280740l36c00bf8t4a6f5b426a7a380a@mail.gmail.com> <200705281049.48679.dhazelton@enter.net> <4cefeab80705280806m39fbcfd6v93a1c847c25e381c@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4cefeab80705280806m39fbcfd6v93a1c847c25e381c@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1211 Lines: 34 On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 08:36:44PM +0530, Nitin Gupta wrote: >... > So, before this change, it will be good if it gets merged in mainline > and tested, at least for correctness, on all supported achs. All the > while, we will have a good feeling that there is still a good scope > for perf improvement :) The correct order is: - create one version with all the optimizations you have in mind - then ensure that it works correctly on all architectures and document why your version is that much faster than the original version and why you know your optimizations have no side effects - then get it tested in -mm After these steps, you can start considering getting it into mainline. > Cheers, > Nitin cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/