linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Add xxhash and zstd modules

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Date:   Fri, 30 Jun 2017 19:46:54 +0300
From:   Timofey Titovets <nefelim4ag@...il.com>
To:     Nick Terrell <terrelln@...com>
Cc:     kernel-team@...com, Chris Mason <clm@...com>,
        Yann Collet <cyan@...com>, Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>,
        squashfs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Add xxhash and zstd modules

Hi Nick Terrell,
If i understood all correctly,
zstd can compress (decompress) data in way compatible with gzip (zlib)
Do that also true for in kernel library?
If that true, does that make a sense to directly replace zlib with
zstd (configured to work like zlib) in place (as example for btrfs
zlib decompression/compression code)?

Thanks!

-- 
Have a nice day,
Timofey.