Messages in this thread | | | From | Nick Terrell <> | Subject | Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 0/2] Add support for ZSTD-compressed kernel | Date | Mon, 10 Jun 2019 18:40:51 +0000 |
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> On Jun 7, 2019, at 4:06 PM, Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 07:20:46PM +0000, Nick Terrell wrote: >> We'd love to get this mainlined as well! >> >> We're using these patches internally as well. We're seeing an improvement on an >> Intel Atom N3710, where boot time is reduced by one second over using an xz >> compressed kernel. It looks like Ubuntu just switched to a lz4 compressed kernel, >> but zstd is likely a better trade off, because it compresses much better and still has >> excellent decompression speed. >> >> Since its been nearly a year since I sent these out, I will take some time to rebase >> and retest the patches in case anything changed, and then then resend the patches >> in the next weeks. > > Hi! > After the ping, I intended to resend the patch-set (with removals included) > after I return from miniDebconf Hamburg, but you 1. are the author of the > non-trivial part, 2. you have a better test machinery, and 3. I have a > deeply seated preference for effort to be done by people who are not me.
If its okay with you I will resend the patch set with your removals included by the end of next week at the latest. I'll aim for this week.
-Nick
> A rebased and working version is at https://github.com/kilobyte/linux/tree/nobz2-v3 > but there are no real improvements beyond rebases, a typo fix, and Paul Burton's > ACK for mips. > > There's an unaddressed comment by Ingo Molnar > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181112042200.GA96061@gmail.com/ > for your part of the code. > > So what do you suggest? > > > Meow! > -- > ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Latin: meow 4 characters, 4 columns, 4 bytes > ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Greek: μεου 4 characters, 4 columns, 8 bytes > ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ Runes: ᛗᛖᛟᚹ 4 characters, 4 columns, 12 bytes > ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ Chinese: 喵 1 character, 2 columns, 3 bytes <-- best!
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