On Thu, 2 Feb 2023 08:27:55 GMT, Amit Kumar <amitku...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> DeInflate.java test fails on s390x platform because size for out1 array 
>> which is responsible for storing the compressed data is insufficient. And 
>> being unable to write whole compressed data on array, on s390 whole data 
>> can't be recovered after compression. So this fix increase Array size (for 
>> s390).
>
> Amit Kumar has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   change acc to Alan comments

> Finally, are you or someone in your team, in contact with the author(s) of 
> the custom zlib implementation 
> [iii-i/zlib@1132034](https://github.com/iii-i/zlib/commit/113203437eda67261848b14b6c80a33ff7e33d34)?
>  Would you be able to ask for their inputs on whether this (large?) 
> difference in the deflated content size expected and are there any specific 
> input (sizes) that this shows up or is it for all inputs?

This can happen for any poorly compressible inputs, regardless of their size. 
Here is the calculation for the worst case: 
https://github.com/iii-i/zlib/blob/dfltcc-20230109/contrib/s390/dfltcc.h#L17 
(TL;DR: the size can double), but, of course, we don't expect this to be 
happening often.

Here are some benchmarking results: 
https://github.com/iii-i/zlib-ng/wiki/Performance-with-dfltcc-patch-applied-and-dfltcc-support-built-on-dfltcc-enabled-machine.
 The interesting data is in column `compressed_size` where `level` is 1. This 
is the hardware compressed size divided by the software compressed size. Most 
of the time it's +5-20%, in a few cases it compresses better than software, and 
only in one case (kennedy.xls) we see a big difference of +44%.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12283

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