Re: [PATCH 0/3] Update LZO compression

Re: [PATCH 0/3] Update LZO compression

[Andrew Morton]

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.



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.

Re: [PATCH 0/3] Update LZO compression

[Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer]

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/

Re: [PATCH 0/3] Update LZO compression

[Stephen Rothwell]

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Hi Markus,

On Tue, 09 Oct 2012 21:54:59 +0200 "Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer" <markus@oberhumer.com> wrote:
>
> 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

I have added this from today.

Thanks for adding your subsystem tree as a participant of linux-next.  As
you may know, this is not a judgment of your code.  The purpose of
linux-next is for integration testing and to lower the impact of
conflicts between subsystems in the next merge window. 

You will need to ensure that the patches/commits in your tree/series have
been:
     * submitted under GPL v2 (or later) and include the Contributor's
	Signed-off-by,
     * posted to the relevant mailing list,
     * reviewed by you (or another maintainer of your subsystem tree),
     * successfully unit tested, and 
     * destined for the current or next Linux merge window.

Basically, this should be just what you would send to Linus (or ask him
to fetch).  It is allowed to be rebased if you deem it necessary.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell 
sfr@canb.auug.org.au

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Re: [PATCH 0/3] Update LZO compression

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tuesday 09 October 2012, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrote:
> > 
> > : 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.

The addition of the lzo tree to linux-next caused this problem for ARM
imx_v6_v7_defconfig:

In file included from /home/arnd/linux-arm/arch/arm/boot/compressed/decompress.c:40:0:
/home/arnd/linux-arm/arch/arm/boot/compressed/../../../../lib/decompress_unlzo.c:34:34: fatal error: lzo/lzo1x_decompress.c: No such file or directory

Since the file was renamed, anything including it needs to be updated to the
new file name.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

diff --git a/lib/decompress_unlzo.c b/lib/decompress_unlzo.c
index 4531294..960183d 100644
--- a/lib/decompress_unlzo.c
+++ b/lib/decompress_unlzo.c
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
  */
 
 #ifdef STATIC
-#include "lzo/lzo1x_decompress.c"
+#include "lzo/lzo1x_decompress_safe.c"
 #else
 #include <linux/decompress/unlzo.h>
 #endif

Re: [PATCH 0/3] Update LZO compression

[Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer]

Thanks Arnd,

On 2012-10-11 13:41, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 October 2012, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrote:
>>>
>>> : 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.
> 
> The addition of the lzo tree to linux-next caused this problem for ARM
> imx_v6_v7_defconfig:
> 
> In file included from /home/arnd/linux-arm/arch/arm/boot/compressed/decompress.c:40:0:
> /home/arnd/linux-arm/arch/arm/boot/compressed/../../../../lib/decompress_unlzo.c:34:34: fatal error: lzo/lzo1x_decompress.c: No such file or directory
> 
> Since the file was renamed, anything including it needs to be updated to the
> new file name.

I will add that patch to my tree.

Cheers,
Markus

> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> 
> diff --git a/lib/decompress_unlzo.c b/lib/decompress_unlzo.c
> index 4531294..960183d 100644
> --- a/lib/decompress_unlzo.c
> +++ b/lib/decompress_unlzo.c
> @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
>   */
>  
>  #ifdef STATIC
> -#include "lzo/lzo1x_decompress.c"
> +#include "lzo/lzo1x_decompress_safe.c"
>  #else
>  #include <linux/decompress/unlzo.h>
>  #endif

-- 
Markus Oberhumer, <markus@oberhumer.com>, http://www.oberhumer.com/

RE: [PATCH 0/3] Update LZO compression

[Dan Magenheimer]

> From: Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer [mailto:markus@oberhumer.com]
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Update LZO compression
> 
> Thanks Arnd,
> 
> On 2012-10-11 13:41, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Tuesday 09 October 2012, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrote:
> >>>
> >>> : 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.
> >
> > The addition of the lzo tree to linux-next caused this problem for ARM
> > imx_v6_v7_defconfig:
> >
> > In file included from /home/arnd/linux-arm/arch/arm/boot/compressed/decompress.c:40:0:
> > /home/arnd/linux-arm/arch/arm/boot/compressed/../../../../lib/decompress_unlzo.c:34:34: fatal error:
> lzo/lzo1x_decompress.c: No such file or directory
> >
> > Since the file was renamed, anything including it needs to be updated to the
> > new file name.
> 
> I will add that patch to my tree.
> 
> Cheers,
> Markus

Sorry if I missed it (bad connectivity this week), but is someone going
to send a pull request to get this LZO update from linux-next into
Linus's tree?  The window is closing soon isn't it?

Dan