On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 02:00:05PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > ZSTD tends to outperform deflate/inflate, thus we remove > zlib from the list of recommended algorithms and recommend > zstd instead. > > Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhat...@gmail.com> > Suggested-by: Minchan Kim <minc...@kernel.org> I did test with my sample data and compared zstd with deflate. zstd's compress ratio is lower a little bit but compression speed is much faster 3 times more and decompress speed is too 2 times more. With different data, it is different but overall, zstd would be better for speed at the cost of a little lower compress ratio(about 5%) so I believe it's worth to replace deflate.
Thanks for the patch, Sergey. Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minc...@kernel.org>
