[PATCH 0/3] ARM ZSTD boot compression

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Wed Apr 12 14:33:15 PDT 2023


On Wed, Apr 12, 2023, at 23:21, Jonathan Neuschäfer wrote:
> This patchset enables ZSTD kernel (de)compression on 32-bit ARM.
> Unfortunately, it is much slower than I hoped (tested on ARM926EJ-S):
>
>  - LZO:  7.2 MiB,  6 seconds
>  - ZSTD: 5.6 MiB, 60 seconds

That seems unexpected, as the usual numbers say it's about 25%
slower than LZO. Do  you have an idea why it is so much slower
here? How long does it take to decompress the
generated arch/arm/boot/Image file in user space on the same
hardware using lzop and zstd?

       Arnd



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