From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: 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 Message-ID: <506C14BA.70006@oberhumer.com> Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 12:34:34 +0200 From: "Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer" 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 Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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/