linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL v2] Update LZO compression

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Message-ID: <CAFLxGvw3OqOb0UVhjtwC+CD+wtubH-O1FM7=fYFT8ztWPVPd6w@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 3 Oct 2012 12:48:46 +0200
From:	richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
To:	"Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer" <markus@...rhumer.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	chris.mason@...ionio.com, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
	Johannes Stezenbach <js@...21.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL v2] Update LZO compression

CC'in akpm.

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer
<markus@...rhumer.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> is there some official maintainer who feels responsible for
> pushing the LZO update to Linus?
>
> Otherwise I also could issue a pull-request on github, but somehow I
> don't think that this is the preferred workflow.
>
> Cheers,
> Markus
>
> On 2012-08-21 17:21, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> as suggested on the mailing list I have converted the updated LZO
>> code into git, so please pull my "lzo-update" branch from
>>
>>   git://github.com/markus-oberhumer/linux.git lzo-update
>>
>> You can browse the branch at
>>
>>   https://github.com/markus-oberhumer/linux/compare/lzo-update
>>
>> I'd ask some official kernel maintainer for review and to push this into
>> linux-next so that it will hopefully land in the 3.7 release.
>>
>> Share and enjoy,
>> Markus
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer <markus@...rhumer.com>
>>
>>
>> [ Changes in v2: Optimize code for CPUs with inefficient unaligned
>>   access => significant speed increase on ARM ]
>>
>>
>> On 2012-07-16 20:30, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I finally have prepared a small package that updates the LZO version
>>> in the Linux kernel. Please get it from:
>>>
>>> http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/download/Testing/linux-kernel-lzo-20120716.tar.gz
>>>
>>> As stated in the README this version is significantly faster (typically more
>>> than 2 times faster!) than the current version, has been thoroughly tested on
>>> x86_64/i386/powerpc platforms and is intended to get included into the
>>> official Linux 3.6 or 3.7 release.
>>>
>>> I encourage all compression users to test and benchmark this new version,
>>> and I also would ask some official LZO maintainer to convert the updated
>>> source files into a GIT commit and possibly push it to Linus or linux-next.
>>>
>>> Share and enjoy,
>>> Markus
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer" <markus@...rhumer.com>
>
> --
> Markus Oberhumer, <markus@...rhumer.com>, http://www.oberhumer.com/



-- 
Thanks,
//richard
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