Re: [GIT PULL] Update LZO compression code for v3.9

2013-02-26 Thread Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer
On 2013-02-26 18:28, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer > wrote: >> >> please pull my "lzo-update" branch from >> >> git://github.com/markus-oberhumer/linux.git lzo-update > > I *really* want github (and other general hosting) pull requests to be >

Re: [GIT PULL] Update LZO compression code for v3.9

2013-02-26 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrote: > > please pull my "lzo-update" branch from > > git://github.com/markus-oberhumer/linux.git lzo-update I *really* want github (and other general hosting) pull requests to be for signed tags, so that I can see your gpg key and there

Re: [GIT PULL] Update LZO compression

2012-09-07 Thread Andi Kleen
james northrup writes: > looks like ARM results are inconclusive from a lot of folks without bandwidth > to do a write-up, what about just plain STAGING status for ARM so the android > tweakers can beat on it for a while?   Again staging doesn't really work for a core library, it's more for sepa

Re: [GIT PULL] Update LZO compression

2012-08-16 Thread Mitch Harder
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:55:06AM -0700, james northrup wrote: >> looks like ARM results are inconclusive from a lot of folks without >> bandwidth to do a write-up, what about just plain STAGING status for ARM so >> the android tweakers can bea

Re: [GIT PULL] Update LZO compression

2012-08-16 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:55:06AM -0700, james northrup wrote: > looks like ARM results are inconclusive from a lot of folks without > bandwidth to do a write-up, what about just plain STAGING status for ARM so > the android tweakers can beat on it for a while? Staging only really works for new d

Re: [GIT PULL] Update LZO compression

2012-08-16 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: >> I have locked the Allwinner A10 CPU in my Mele A2000 to 60 MHz using >> cpufreq-set, >> and ran your test. rnd.lzo is a 9 MB file from /dev/urandom compressed with >> lzo. >> There doesn't seem to be a significant difference between all three

Re: [GIT PULL] Update LZO compression

2012-08-16 Thread Andi Kleen
> I have locked the Allwinner A10 CPU in my Mele A2000 to 60 MHz using > cpufreq-set, > and ran your test. rnd.lzo is a 9 MB file from /dev/urandom compressed with > lzo. > There doesn't seem to be a significant difference between all three variants. I found that in compression benchmarks it dep

Re: [GIT PULL] Update LZO compression

2012-08-16 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:06:47 +0200 Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > Well, ~2x speedup on x86 is certainly a good achievement, but there > are more ARM based devices than there are PCs, and I guess many > embedded devices use lzo compressed kernels and file systems > while I'm not convinced many PCs r

Re: [GIT PULL] Update LZO compression

2012-08-16 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:48:49PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On 08/16/2012 12:20 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: > >>If you think a little bit, I bet you could come up with a solution that > >>operates at cacheline-aligned granularity, something that would be _even > >>faster_ than simply fixing the code t

Re: [GIT PULL] Update LZO compression

2012-08-16 Thread Jeff Garzik
On 08/16/2012 12:20 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: If you think a little bit, I bet you could come up with a solution that operates at cacheline-aligned granularity, something that would be _even faster_ than simply fixing the code to do aligned accesses. Cache aligned compression is unlikely to compres

Re: [GIT PULL] Update LZO compression

2012-08-16 Thread Andi Kleen
> If you think a little bit, I bet you could come up with a solution that > operates at cacheline-aligned granularity, something that would be _even > faster_ than simply fixing the code to do aligned accesses. Cache aligned compression is unlikely to compress anything at all. Compression algori

Re: [GIT PULL] Update LZO compression

2012-08-16 Thread Jeff Garzik
On 08/16/2012 02:27 AM, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrote: On 2012-08-15 16:45, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 02:02:43PM +0200, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrote: On 2012-08-14 14:39, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 01:44:02AM +0200, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrot

Re: [GIT PULL] Update LZO compression

2012-08-16 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 08:27:15AM +0200, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrote: > On 2012-08-15 16:45, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > > > > I made the attached quick hack userspace code > > using ARM kernel headers and barebox unlzop code. > > (new == your new code, old == linux-3.5 git, test == new + your

Re: [GIT PULL] Update LZO compression

2012-08-15 Thread Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer
On 2012-08-15 16:45, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 02:02:43PM +0200, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrote: >> On 2012-08-14 14:39, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: >>> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 01:44:02AM +0200, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrote: On 2012-07-16 20:30, Markus F.X.J. Oberhume

Re: [GIT PULL] Update LZO compression

2012-08-15 Thread Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer
Hi Johannes, On 2012-08-14 14:39, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 01:44:02AM +0200, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrote: >> On 2012-07-16 20:30, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrote: >>> >>> As stated in the README this version is significantly faster (typically more >>> than 2 times faste

Re: [GIT PULL] Update LZO compression

2012-08-14 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 01:44:02AM +0200, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrote: > On 2012-07-16 20:30, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrote: > > > > As stated in the README this version is significantly faster (typically more > > than 2 times faster!) than the current version, has been thoroughly tested > > on

Re: [GIT PULL] Update LZO compression

2012-08-14 Thread Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer
On 2012-08-14 05:15, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 01:44:02AM +0200, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> as suggested on the mailing list I have converted the updated LZO >> code into git, so please pull my "lzo-update" branch from >> >> git://github.com/markus-oberhumer

Re: [GIT PULL] Update LZO compression

2012-08-13 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 01:44:02AM +0200, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrote: > Hi all, > > as suggested on the mailing list I have converted the updated LZO > code into git, so please pull my "lzo-update" branch from > > git://github.com/markus-oberhumer/linux.git lzo-update > > You can browse the