From: "Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer" <markus@oberhumer.com>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net>,
richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>,
linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>,
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk>,
Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>,
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Update LZO compression
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 21:54:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50748113.80408@oberhumer.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121009122614.569b9535.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Hi Stephen,
On 2012-10-09 21:26, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Oct 2012 17:07:55 +0200
> "Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer" <markus@oberhumer.com> wrote:
>
>> As requested by akpm I am sending my "lzo-update" branch at
>>
>> git://github.com/markus-oberhumer/linux.git lzo-update
>>
>> to lkml as a patch series created by "git format-patch -M v3.5..lzo-update".
>>
>> You can also browse the branch at
>>
>> https://github.com/markus-oberhumer/linux/compare/lzo-update
>>
>> and review the three patches at
>>
>> https://github.com/markus-oberhumer/linux/commit/7c979cebc0f93dc692b734c12665a6824d219c20
>> https://github.com/markus-oberhumer/linux/commit/10f6781c8591fe5fe4c8c733131915e5ae057826
>> https://github.com/markus-oberhumer/linux/commit/5f702781f158cb59075cfa97e5c21f52275057f1
>
> The changes look OK to me. Please ask Stephen to include the tree in
> linux-next, for a 3.7 merge.
I'd ask you to include my "lzo-update" branch in linux-next:
git://github.com/markus-oberhumer/linux.git lzo-update
> The changelog for patch 2/3 says:
>
> : This commit updates the kernel LZO code to the current upsteam version
> : which features a significant speed improvement - benchmarking the Calgary
> : and Silesia test corpora typically shows a doubled performance in
> : both compression and decompression on modern i386/x86_64/powerpc machines.
>
> There are significant clients of the LZO library - crypto, btrfs,
> jffs2, ubifs, squashfs and zcache. So let's give all those people a cc
> and ask that they test the LZO changes once they land in linux-next.
> For correctness and performance, please.
The core compression and decompression code has been thoroughly tested, so I
do not expect major problems.
Good testing after the merge and feedback about build or performance issues
(and improvements!) is highly appreciated.
Many thanks,
Markus
--
Markus Oberhumer, <markus@oberhumer.com>, http://www.oberhumer.com/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-09 19:55 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <cover.1349621096.git.markus@oberhumer.com>
2012-10-09 19:26 ` [PATCH 0/3] Update LZO compression Andrew Morton
2012-10-09 19:54 ` Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer [this message]
2012-10-09 22:43 ` Stephen Rothwell
2012-10-11 11:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-10-11 16:28 ` Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer
2012-12-21 2:03 ` Dan Magenheimer
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