linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL][PATCH v9 0/3] Update to zstd-1.4.10

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Message-ID: <YHc16rz4Y/PkzNH1@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 14 Apr 2021 11:35:22 -0700
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
To:     Nick Terrell <nickrterrell@...il.com>
Cc:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        squashfs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        Johannes Weiner <jweiner@...com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Yann Collet <cyan@...com>, David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, Petr Malat <oss@...at.biz>,
        Chris Mason <clm@...com>, Nick Terrell <terrelln@...com>,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@...alenko.name>,
        Kernel Team <Kernel-team@...com>,
        Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>,
        Niket Agarwal <niketa@...com>, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL][PATCH v9 0/3] Update to zstd-1.4.10

On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 11:01:29AM -0700, Nick Terrell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I would really like to make some progress on this and get it merged.
> This patchset offsers:
> * 15-30% better decompression speed
> * 3 years of zstd bug fixes and code improvements
> * Allows us to import zstd directly from upstream so we don't fall 3
> years out of date again
> 
> Thanks,
> Nick
> 

I think it would help get it merged if someone actually volunteered to maintain
it.  As-is there is no entry in MAINTAINERS for this code.

- Eric