Re: [PATCH 7/7] erofs: lzma compression support

Chao Yu
2021-10-19T13:04:16Z

On 2021/10/11 5:31, Gao Xiang wrote:
> From: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
>
> Add MicroLZMA support in order to maximize compression ratios for
> specific scenarios. For example, it's useful for low-end embedded
> boards and as a secondary algorithm in a file for specific access
> patterns.
>
> MicroLZMA is a new container format for raw LZMA1, which was created
> by Lasse Collin aiming to minimize old LZMA headers and get rid of
> unnecessary EOPM (end of payload marker) as well as to enable
> fixed-sized output compression, especially for 4KiB pclusters.
>
> Similar to LZ4, inplace I/O approach is used to minimize runtime
> memory footprint when dealing with I/O. Overlapped decompression is
> handled with 1) bounced buffer for data under processing or 2) extra
> short-lived pages from the on-stack pagepool which will be shared in
> the same read request (128KiB for example).
>
> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>

Acked-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>

Thanks,