Re: [GIT PULL] zstd support (lib, btrfs, squashfs)

[Nick Terrell]

On 9/8/17, 6:36 PM, "Herbert Xu" <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2017 at 03:33:05PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> >
> >  crypto/Kconfig             |    9 +
> >  crypto/Makefile            |    1 +
> >  crypto/testmgr.c           |   10 +
> >  crypto/testmgr.h           |   71 +
> >  crypto/zstd.c              |  265 ++++
> 
> Is there anyone going to use zstd through the crypto API? If not
> then I don't see the point in adding it at this point.  Especially
> as the compression API is still in a state of flux.

There is a patch [1] floating around adding zstd support to compressed RAM
that uses the crypto API.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170824014936.4738-1-sergey.senozhatsky%40gmail.com