Re: [PATCH v9 3/4] qcow2: add zstd cluster compression

2020-03-27 Thread Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
27.03.2020 12:40, Denis Plotnikov wrote: On 27.03.2020 11:43, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote: Should we note somehow in qcow2 spec that we use streamed version of zstd with specific end byte? We didn't do it for zlib. zstd does it the same way as zlib, saves the compression output to

Re: [PATCH v9 3/4] qcow2: add zstd cluster compression

2020-03-27 Thread Denis Plotnikov
On 27.03.2020 11:43, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote: Should we note somehow in qcow2 spec that we use streamed version of zstd with specific end byte? We didn't do it for zlib. zstd does it the same way as zlib, saves the compression output to some buffer. 23.03.2020 17:25, Denis

Re: [PATCH v9 3/4] qcow2: add zstd cluster compression

2020-03-27 Thread Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
Should we note somehow in qcow2 spec that we use streamed version of zstd with specific end byte? 23.03.2020 17:25, Denis Plotnikov wrote: zstd significantly reduces cluster compression time. It provides better compression performance maintaining the same level of the compression ratio in

[PATCH v9 3/4] qcow2: add zstd cluster compression

2020-03-23 Thread Denis Plotnikov
zstd significantly reduces cluster compression time. It provides better compression performance maintaining the same level of the compression ratio in comparison with zlib, which, at the moment, is the only compression method available. The performance test results: Test compresses and