From: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> To: Kyungsik Lee <kyungsik.lee@lge.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, celinux-dev@lists.celinuxforum.org, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>, Nitin Gupta <nitingupta910@gmail.com>, "Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer" <markus@oberhumer.com>, Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com>, Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>, Joe Millenbach <jmillenbach@gmail.com>, David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>, Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>, Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com>, Egon Alter <egon.alter@gmx.net>, hyojun.im@lge.com, chan.jeong@lge.com, raphael.andy.lee@gmail.com Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/4] lib: Add support for LZ4-compressed kernel Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:00:51 +0100 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20130226140051.GX27541@twin.jikos.cz> (raw) In-Reply-To: <1361859870-15751-3-git-send-email-kyungsik.lee@lge.com> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 03:24:28PM +0900, Kyungsik Lee wrote: > +config KERNEL_LZ4 > + bool "LZ4" > + depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 > + help > + Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel > + is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is > + faster than LZO. > + Can you please add a sentence what lz4 actually is before you start comparing it with the current competitor(s)? > --- /dev/null > +++ b/lib/decompress_unlz4.c > @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ > +#define LZ4_CHUNK_SIZE (8<<20) Please use a less cryptic way of representing a value of 8 MB. Also, this is a hardcoded value that must be used on the compressor side. It's an upper limit, so anything below 8MB does not break decompresssion, but this must be somehow checked or saved along in the binary stream. You seem to use the lz4demo.c on the userspace side for compression, but this is not a standard tool nor the output format is well-defined or stabilized. For proper use I would like to see a commandline tool similar to gzip/bzip2/lzop that can be packaged and shipped by distros, and the output format defintion. Yann has some ideas for the format http://fastcompression.blogspot.cz/2012/04/file-container-format-for-lz4.html For kernel, the minimum of meta information is total compressed length, total uncompressed length and chunk size. I don't know if the first two aren't stored elsewhere in the generic kernel image headers, but chunk size must be specified. david
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From: dsterba@suse.cz (David Sterba) To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: [RFC PATCH v2 2/4] lib: Add support for LZ4-compressed kernel Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:00:51 +0100 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20130226140051.GX27541@twin.jikos.cz> (raw) In-Reply-To: <1361859870-15751-3-git-send-email-kyungsik.lee@lge.com> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 03:24:28PM +0900, Kyungsik Lee wrote: > +config KERNEL_LZ4 > + bool "LZ4" > + depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 > + help > + Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel > + is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is > + faster than LZO. > + Can you please add a sentence what lz4 actually is before you start comparing it with the current competitor(s)? > --- /dev/null > +++ b/lib/decompress_unlz4.c > @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ > +#define LZ4_CHUNK_SIZE (8<<20) Please use a less cryptic way of representing a value of 8 MB. Also, this is a hardcoded value that must be used on the compressor side. It's an upper limit, so anything below 8MB does not break decompresssion, but this must be somehow checked or saved along in the binary stream. You seem to use the lz4demo.c on the userspace side for compression, but this is not a standard tool nor the output format is well-defined or stabilized. For proper use I would like to see a commandline tool similar to gzip/bzip2/lzop that can be packaged and shipped by distros, and the output format defintion. Yann has some ideas for the format http://fastcompression.blogspot.cz/2012/04/file-container-format-for-lz4.html For kernel, the minimum of meta information is total compressed length, total uncompressed length and chunk size. I don't know if the first two aren't stored elsewhere in the generic kernel image headers, but chunk size must be specified. david
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-26 14:00 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2013-02-26 6:24 [RFC PATCH v2 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernel Kyungsik Lee 2013-02-26 6:24 ` Kyungsik Lee 2013-02-26 6:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2 1/4] decompressor: Add LZ4 decompressor module Kyungsik Lee 2013-02-26 6:24 ` Kyungsik Lee 2013-02-26 13:12 ` David Sterba 2013-02-26 13:12 ` David Sterba 2013-02-27 4:38 ` Kyungsik Lee 2013-02-27 4:38 ` Kyungsik Lee 2013-02-26 6:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2 2/4] lib: Add support for LZ4-compressed kernel Kyungsik Lee 2013-02-26 6:24 ` Kyungsik Lee 2013-02-26 14:00 ` David Sterba [this message] 2013-02-26 14:00 ` David Sterba 2013-02-28 5:22 ` Kyungsik Lee 2013-02-28 5:22 ` Kyungsik Lee 2013-02-26 6:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2 3/4] arm: " Kyungsik Lee 2013-02-26 6:24 ` Kyungsik Lee 2013-02-26 6:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2 4/4] x86: " Kyungsik Lee 2013-02-26 6:24 ` Kyungsik Lee 2013-02-26 20:33 ` [RFC PATCH v2 0/4] " Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer 2013-02-26 20:33 ` Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer 2013-02-26 20:59 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-02-26 20:59 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-02-26 21:58 ` Peter Korsgaard 2013-02-26 21:58 ` Peter Korsgaard 2013-02-26 22:09 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-02-26 22:09 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-02-26 22:10 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2013-02-26 22:10 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2013-02-27 1:40 ` Joe Perches 2013-02-27 1:40 ` Joe Perches 2013-02-27 9:56 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2013-02-27 9:56 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2013-02-27 15:49 ` Joe Perches 2013-02-27 15:49 ` Joe Perches 2013-02-27 16:08 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-02-27 16:08 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-02-27 16:08 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-02-27 16:31 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2013-02-27 16:31 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2013-02-27 16:53 ` Borislav Petkov 2013-02-27 16:53 ` Borislav Petkov 2013-02-27 17:04 ` Joe Perches 2013-02-27 17:04 ` Joe Perches 2013-02-27 17:16 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-02-27 17:16 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-02-27 17:39 ` Joe Perches 2013-02-27 17:39 ` Joe Perches 2013-02-27 17:52 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-02-27 17:52 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-02-27 17:57 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2013-02-27 17:57 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2013-02-27 17:36 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2013-02-27 17:36 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2013-02-28 4:22 ` Joe Perches 2013-02-28 4:22 ` Joe Perches 2013-02-27 7:36 ` Kyungsik Lee 2013-02-27 7:36 ` Kyungsik Lee 2013-02-27 9:51 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2013-02-27 9:51 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2013-02-27 10:20 ` Johannes Stezenbach 2013-02-27 10:20 ` Johannes Stezenbach 2013-02-27 15:35 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-02-27 15:35 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-02-27 13:23 ` Kyungsik Lee 2013-02-27 13:23 ` Kyungsik Lee 2013-02-27 22:21 ` Andrew Morton 2013-02-27 22:21 ` Andrew Morton
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