Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932087Ab2JCKsu (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2012 06:48:50 -0400 Received: from mail-bk0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:56263 "EHLO mail-bk0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752651Ab2JCKsr (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2012 06:48:47 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <506C14BA.70006@oberhumer.com> References: <5033A78E.3080703@oberhumer.com> <506C14BA.70006@oberhumer.com> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 12:48:46 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [GIT PULL v2] Update LZO compression From: richard -rw- weinberger To: "Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen , chris.mason@fusionio.com, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, Nitin Gupta , Johannes Stezenbach , Andrew Morton Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2360 Lines: 75 CC'in akpm. On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrote: > Hi all, > > is there some official maintainer who feels responsible for > pushing the LZO update to Linus? > > Otherwise I also could issue a pull-request on github, but somehow I > don't think that this is the preferred workflow. > > Cheers, > Markus > > On 2012-08-21 17:21, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> as suggested on the mailing list I have converted the updated LZO >> code into git, so please pull my "lzo-update" branch from >> >> git://github.com/markus-oberhumer/linux.git lzo-update >> >> You can browse the branch at >> >> https://github.com/markus-oberhumer/linux/compare/lzo-update >> >> I'd ask some official kernel maintainer for review and to push this into >> linux-next so that it will hopefully land in the 3.7 release. >> >> Share and enjoy, >> Markus >> >> Signed-off-by: Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer >> >> >> [ Changes in v2: Optimize code for CPUs with inefficient unaligned >> access => significant speed increase on ARM ] >> >> >> On 2012-07-16 20:30, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I finally have prepared a small package that updates the LZO version >>> in the Linux kernel. Please get it from: >>> >>> http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/download/Testing/linux-kernel-lzo-20120716.tar.gz >>> >>> As stated in the README this version is significantly faster (typically more >>> than 2 times faster!) than the current version, has been thoroughly tested on >>> x86_64/i386/powerpc platforms and is intended to get included into the >>> official Linux 3.6 or 3.7 release. >>> >>> I encourage all compression users to test and benchmark this new version, >>> and I also would ask some official LZO maintainer to convert the updated >>> source files into a GIT commit and possibly push it to Linus or linux-next. >>> >>> Share and enjoy, >>> Markus >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer" > > -- > Markus Oberhumer, , http://www.oberhumer.com/ -- Thanks, //richard -- 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/