linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel

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Date:	Thu, 10 May 2007 09:26:16 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Richard Purdie <richard@...nedhand.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel

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).

> How many buffer overruns are there in it?

That I'm afraid I cannot tell you.

-- 
dwmw2

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