Re: [PATCH v6 1/5] lib: Update LZ4 compressor module

2017-02-01 Thread Sven Schmidt
On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 03:27:44PM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 23:02:00 +0100 > Sven Schmidt <4ssch...@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> wrote: > > I have one quick question... > > > /* > > + * LZ4_compress_default() > > + * Compresses 'sourceSize' bytes from buffer 'source' > >

Re: [PATCH v6 1/5] lib: Update LZ4 compressor module

2017-01-31 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 23:02:00 +0100 Sven Schmidt <4ssch...@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> wrote: I have one quick question... > /* > + * LZ4_compress_default() > + * Compresses 'sourceSize' bytes from buffer 'source' > + * into already allocated 'dest' buffer of size 'maxOutputSize'. > + * Comp

[PATCH v6 1/5] lib: Update LZ4 compressor module

2017-01-27 Thread Sven Schmidt
This patch updates LZ4 kernel module to LZ4 v1.7.3 by Yann Collet. The kernel module is inspired by the previous work by Chanho Min. The updated LZ4 module will not break existing code since the patchset contains appropriate changes. API changes: New method LZ4_compress_fast which differs from th