linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] zram: remove zlib from the list of recommended algorithms

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Date:   Tue, 12 Sep 2017 14:00:05 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] zram: remove zlib from the list of recommended algorithms

ZSTD tends to outperform deflate/inflate, thus we remove
zlib from the list of recommended algorithms and recommend
zstd instead.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
Suggested-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c b/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c
index cc66daec7bbc..4ed0a78fdc09 100644
--- a/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c
@@ -23,9 +23,6 @@ static const char * const backends[] = {
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CRYPTO_LZ4)
 	"lz4",
 #endif
-#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEFLATE)
-	"deflate",
-#endif
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CRYPTO_LZ4HC)
 	"lz4hc",
 #endif
-- 
2.14.1