Re: Kernel compression benchmarks

[Sedat Dilek]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 5:18 PM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 10:35:48AM -0400, Alex Xu (Hello71) wrote:
> > ZSTD compression patches have been sent in a number of times over the
> > past few years. Every time, someone asks for benchmarks. Every time,
> > someone is concerned about compression time. Sometimes, someone provides
> > benchmarks.
>
> Where's the latest series for this, btw? I thought it had landed. :P It
> seemed like it was done.
>

Hi,

Again, I would like to see this upstream, too.

Last I asked for a rebase against Linux v5.8-rc1 or later.

Beyond above adaptations, the latest series "zstd-v5" of Nick T.s
patchset needs some addition of zstd to the patch (see [1]):

commit 8dfb61dcbaceb19a5ded5e9c9dcf8d05acc32294
"kbuild: add variables for compression tools"

NOTE:
"zstd-v5" was against Linux-next 20200408 or download the series from
patchwork LKML which applies cleanly against Linux v5.7 - last is what
I did.

There was a follow-up to the above patch (see [2]):

commit e4a42c82e943b97ce124539fcd7a47445b43fa0d
"kbuild: fix broken builds because of GZIP,BZIP2,LZOP variables"

Nevertheless, this is the kernel-side of doing - user-space like for
example Debian's initramfs-tools needs adaptations (see [3]).

@Kees: Can you aid Nick T. to get this upstream? You know the
processes a bit better than me.

Regards,
- Sedat -

[0] https://github.com/terrelln/linux/tree/zstd-v5
[0] https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/project/lkml/list/?series=437934
[1] https://git.kernel.org/linus/8dfb61dcbaceb19a5ded5e9c9dcf8d05acc32294
[2] https://git.kernel.org/linus/e4a42c82e943b97ce124539fcd7a47445b43fa0d
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/955469