Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755935Ab2JCKyU (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2012 06:54:20 -0400 Received: from mail.servus.at ([193.170.194.20]:43022 "EHLO mail.servus.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754750Ab2JCKyS (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2012 06:54:18 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1178 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 06:54:17 EDT Message-ID: <506C14BA.70006@oberhumer.com> Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 12:34:34 +0200 From: "Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer" Organization: oberhumer.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:10.0.7) Gecko/20120824 Thunderbird/10.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: Andi Kleen , chris.mason@fusionio.com, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, Nitin Gupta , richard -rw- weinberger , Johannes Stezenbach Subject: Re: [GIT PULL v2] Update LZO compression References: <5033A78E.3080703@oberhumer.com> In-Reply-To: <5033A78E.3080703@oberhumer.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2177 Lines: 65 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/ -- 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/