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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 20:18:57 +0200
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Update LZO compression
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.ru>, Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net>,
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On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
>> I have locked the Allwinner A10 CPU in my Mele A2000 to 60 MHz using cpufreq-set,
>> and ran your test. rnd.lzo is a 9 MB file from /dev/urandom compressed with lzo.
>> There doesn't seem to be a significant difference between all three variants.
>
> I found that in compression benchmarks it depends a lot on the data
> compressed.
>
> urandom (which should be essentially incompressible) will be handled
> by different code paths in the compressor than other more compressible data.
> It becomes a complicated memcpy then.

In addition, locking the CPU to 60 MHz may improve the memory access penalty,
as a cache miss may cost much less cycles.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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