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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH v2 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernel
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:51:39 +0000
Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 04:36:47PM +0900, Kyungsik Lee wrote:
> > Compiler: Linaro ARM gcc 4.6.2
> > 2. ARMv7, 1.7GHz based board
> > Kernel: linux 3.7
> > Uncompressed Kernel Size: 14MB
> > Compressed Size Decompression Speed
> > LZO 6.0MB 34.1MB/s Old
> > ----------------------------------------
> > 6.0MB 34.7MB/s New
> > 6.0MB 52.2MB/s(UA)
> > =============================================
> > LZ4 6.5MB 86.7MB/s
> > UA: Unaligned memory Access support
>
> That is pretty conclusive - it shows an 8% increase in image size vs a
> 66% increase in decompression speed. It will take a _lot_ to offset
> that increase in decompression speed.
>
> So, what I think is that yes, we should accept LZ4 and drop LZO from
> the kernel - the "fast but may not be small" compression title has
> clearly been taken by LZ4.
>
> Akpm - what's your thoughts?

It sounds like we should merge both.

I've sent Linus a little reminder for Markus's 3.9 pull request. Let's
get down and review and test this new code?

David's review comments were useful.

I'd like to also see a Kconfig patch which makes x86 and arm kernels
default to the new LZ4 code. Then I can sneak that patch into
linux-next so the new code will get some testing. If we don't do that,
very few people will run it.


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