Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] Add support for ZSTD-compressed kernel and initramfs

Nick Terrell
2020-03-31T04:15:36Z

> On Mar 29, 2020, at 8:45 AM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [ CC: Nick Desaulniers ]
>
> Hi Nick,
>
> I have tested your patchset v3 on top of Linux v5.6-rc7+
> compiled/linked with Clang/LLD v9.0.1.
>
> My Linux system is Debian/testing (will be "bullseye" aka version 11) AMD64.
> I used zstd package version 1.4.4+dfsg-3.
>
> I have no big numbers for you expect a comparison of initrd.img files
> compressed with GZIP (default by Debian) and ZSTD:
>
> root# du -k /boot/initrd.img-$(uname -r).{gz,zst}
> 29272 /boot/initrd.img-5.6.0-rc7-1-amd64-clang.gz
> 23540 /boot/initrd.img-5.6.0-rc7-1-amd64-clang.zst
>
> I needed to do some modifications to stuff from
> initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools-core (see end-titles).
>
> Do you plan to push this for Linux v5.7?

I hope that it will be accepted. From my point of view this patch set is
ready for merge, except for the maximum window size increase
requested by Petr.

> Feel free to add credits for the whole series:
>
> Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>

Thanks for testing the patch set Sedat!

-Nick