Hi Stephen, On 2012-10-09 21:26, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 7 Oct 2012 17:07:55 +0200 > "Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer" <mar...@oberhumer.com> wrote: > >> As requested by akpm I am sending my "lzo-update" branch at >> >> git://github.com/markus-oberhumer/linux.git lzo-update >> >> to lkml as a patch series created by "git format-patch -M v3.5..lzo-update". >> >> You can also browse the branch at >> >> https://github.com/markus-oberhumer/linux/compare/lzo-update >> >> and review the three patches at >> >> >> https://github.com/markus-oberhumer/linux/commit/7c979cebc0f93dc692b734c12665a6824d219c20 >> >> https://github.com/markus-oberhumer/linux/commit/10f6781c8591fe5fe4c8c733131915e5ae057826 >> >> https://github.com/markus-oberhumer/linux/commit/5f702781f158cb59075cfa97e5c21f52275057f1 > > The changes look OK to me. Please ask Stephen to include the tree in > linux-next, for a 3.7 merge.
I'd ask you to include my "lzo-update" branch in linux-next: git://github.com/markus-oberhumer/linux.git lzo-update > The changelog for patch 2/3 says: > > : This commit updates the kernel LZO code to the current upsteam version > : which features a significant speed improvement - benchmarking the Calgary > : and Silesia test corpora typically shows a doubled performance in > : both compression and decompression on modern i386/x86_64/powerpc machines. > > There are significant clients of the LZO library - crypto, btrfs, > jffs2, ubifs, squashfs and zcache. So let's give all those people a cc > and ask that they test the LZO changes once they land in linux-next. > For correctness and performance, please. The core compression and decompression code has been thoroughly tested, so I do not expect major problems. Good testing after the merge and feedback about build or performance issues (and improvements!) is highly appreciated. Many thanks, Markus -- Markus Oberhumer, <mar...@oberhumer.com>, http://www.oberhumer.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
