From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933069AbZHEBkN (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Aug 2009 21:40:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932821AbZHEBkK (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Aug 2009 21:40:10 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:39246 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932817AbZHEBkJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Aug 2009 21:40:09 -0400 Message-ID: <4A78E229.2030309@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:36:41 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090513 Fedora/3.0-2.3.beta2.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0b2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Albin Tonnerre , sam@ravnborg.org, linux@arm.linux.org.uk, alain@knaff.lu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] Add support for LZO-compressed kernels References: <20090731093107.GA29704@merkur.ravnborg.org> <1249311501-23102-1-git-send-email-albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com> <1249311501-23102-2-git-send-email-albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com> <1249311501-23102-3-git-send-email-albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com> <20090804160043.82b256d8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20090804160043.82b256d8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 08/04/2009 04:00 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > > 0.24 seconds booting speedup sounds pretty thin. Adding a new > decompression format will introduce more configuration/build/deployment > complexities. How do we justify this? > Keep in mind this may be out of a 3-5 second boot budget. -hpa