linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] PM: align buffers for LZO compression

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Message-ID: <a9ab9b44-5b41-40d1-b204-7b164832e4f4@email.android.com>
Date:	Sat, 23 Feb 2013 11:32:08 +1100
From:	Bojan Smojver <bojan@...ursive.com>
To:	"Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer" <markus@...rhumer.com>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PM: align buffers for LZO compression

"Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer" <markus@...rhumer.com> wrote:

>for performance reasons I'd strongly suggest that you explicitly align
>all
>buffers passed to the LZO compress and decompress functions.
>
>Below is a small (and completely untested!) patch, but I think you
>get the idea.

Do you know what kind of performance gains should be expected from this?

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Bojan
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