[PATCH 10/10] AXFS: axfs_uncompress.c

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind at infradead.org
Thu Aug 21 07:40:38 EDT 2008


On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 22:46 -0700, Jared Hulbert wrote:
> +	err = zlib_inflateReset(&stream);
> +	if (err != Z_OK) {
> +		printk(KERN_ERR "zlib_inflateReset error %d\n", err);
> +		zlib_inflateEnd(&stream);
> +		zlib_inflateInit(&stream);
> +	}

Jared,

just FYI, are you aware that LZO which is also present in the kernel is
much faster on decompress than zlib, while its compression is only
slightly worse?

I do not remember the digits, but last time I tested UBIFS, LZO
decompression was about 3 times faster than zlib on OMAP3. This depends
on architecture, etc of course. This may matter a lot if one is fighting
for faster system boot-up. So you might consider supporting LZO as well.

-- 
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)




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