linux-kernel - Re: Drop support to compressed modules?

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Date:	Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:28:46 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...i.de>
To:	Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@...fusion.mobi>
cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-modules <linux-modules@...r.kernel.org>,
	Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@...il.com>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Dave Reisner <d@...conindy.com>
Subject: Re: Drop support to compressed modules?


On Friday 2012-09-21 23:41, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
>
>While fixing a bug in kmod related to using compressed modules (that
>already existed in module-init-tools) we stopped to think about these
>questions. Dave made a couple of benchmarks and performance wise it's
>better to use uncompressed modules than modules with gz or xz
>compression. However the benchmark was done in only 1 computer. I do
>expect people with slow storage to have different numbers though. Does
>anyone have these numbers?

What benchmark should be run?
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