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From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 10:49:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4642DC89.7080007@wpkg.org> (raw)

David Woodhouse wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 23:21 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> Well that's attractive-looking code.
> 
> It's compression code. I've never seen compression code look nice :)
> 
>> Why is this needed?  What code plans to use it?
> 
> I'm itching to use it in JFFS2. Richard claims a 10% boot time speedup
> and 40% improvement on file read speed, with only a slight drop in the
> file compression ratio (when compared to zlib).

Would be interesting to have it as a shared base for 
planned-for-May-2020 "compressed tmpfs" (and, perhaps a filesystem with 
compression, which seems even harder to engineer properly).


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski


             reply	other threads:[~2007-05-10  8:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-10  8:49 Tomasz Chmielewski [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-12 10:41 [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel devzero
2007-05-12 11:41 ` Jindrich Makovicka
2007-05-12 19:51   ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-15 16:54 ` Pavel Machek
2007-05-11 20:48 devzero
2007-05-13 13:06 ` Jindrich Makovicka
2007-05-02  8:56 Richard Purdie
2007-05-02  9:35 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-05-04 18:28   ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-10  6:21 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-10  8:26   ` David Woodhouse
2007-05-10  8:53     ` Richard Purdie
2007-05-10 14:30   ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-12 11:17 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-05-12 15:17   ` Richard Purdie
2007-05-12 16:47     ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-12 20:56       ` Richard Purdie
2007-05-13 11:59         ` Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer

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