Re: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel

2007-05-16 Thread Pavel Machek
On Sat 2007-05-12 12:41:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > oh - and think of linux software suspend. > take a notebook with 2 GB of ram - that takes a while to write that to disk > and read that back again. > using lzo compression for this may probably halve the time for suspend/resume suspend.sf.net

Re: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel

2007-05-13 Thread Jindrich Makovicka
On Fri, 11 May 2007 22:48:15 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Why is this needed? What code plans to use it? > > it`s pretty useful because it`s and a damn fast and damn cpu friendly > compression alorithm. > > afaik, there is already a least one linux kernel-feature (under > development) whic

Re: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel

2007-05-12 Thread Richard Purdie
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 09:47 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 12 May 2007 16:17:35 +0100 Richard Purdie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 13:17 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 09:56:23AM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: > > > >... > > > > I've asked the

Re: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel

2007-05-12 Thread Satyam Sharma
Hi Jindrich, On 5/12/07, Jindrich Makovicka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 12 May 2007 12:41:03 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > oh - and think of linux software suspend. > take a notebook with 2 GB of ram - that takes a while to write that > to disk and read that back again. using lzo comp

Re: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel

2007-05-12 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 12 May 2007 16:17:35 +0100 Richard Purdie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 13:17 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 09:56:23AM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: > > >... > > > I've asked the LZO author about the comments on lzo_copyright function > > > but t

Re: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel

2007-05-12 Thread Richard Purdie
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 13:17 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 09:56:23AM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: > >... > > I've asked the LZO author about the comments on lzo_copyright function > > but the code is GPLv2 licensed so is suitable for inclusion in the > > kernel. > > This soun

Re: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel

2007-05-12 Thread Jindrich Makovicka
On Sat, 12 May 2007 12:41:03 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > oh - and think of linux software suspend. > take a notebook with 2 GB of ram - that takes a while to write that > to disk and read that back again. using lzo compression for this may > probably halve the time for suspend/resume There w

Re: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel

2007-05-12 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 09:56:23AM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: >... > I've asked the LZO author about the comments on lzo_copyright function > but the code is GPLv2 licensed so is suitable for inclusion in the > kernel. This sounds as if LZO is GPL incompatible similar to code under the 4 clause

Re: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel

2007-05-12 Thread devzero
t; Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: 11.05.07 22:48:15 > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Betreff: Re: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel > > >Why is this needed? What code plans to use it? > > it`s pret

Re: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel

2007-05-11 Thread devzero
e level of maturity. maybe i can add another software integrating lzo compression to the enumeration at http://www.lzop.de ? ;) regards roland List: linux-kernel Subject:Re: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel From: Andrew Morton Date: 2007-05-10 6:21:29

Re: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel

2007-05-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 9 2007 23:21, Andrew Morton wrote: >On Wed, 02 May 2007 09:56:23 +0100 Richard Purdie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Add LZO1X compression/decompression support to the kernel. >> >> This is based on the standard userspace lzo library, particularly >> minilzo with the headers much trimmed

Re: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel

2007-05-10 Thread Richard Purdie
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 09:26 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 23:21 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Well that's attractive-looking code. > > It's compression code. I've never seen compression code look nice :) > > > Why is this needed? What code plans to use it? > > I'm itch

Re: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel

2007-05-10 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
David Woodhouse wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 23:21 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Well that's attractive-looking code. It's compression code. I've never seen compression code look nice :) Why is this needed? What code plans to use it? I'm itching to use it in JFFS2. Richard claims a 10% boo

Re: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel

2007-05-10 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 23:21 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Well that's attractive-looking code. It's compression code. I've never seen compression code look nice :) > Why is this needed? What code plans to use it? I'm itching to use it in JFFS2. Richard claims a 10% boot time speedup and 40% imp

Re: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel

2007-05-09 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 02 May 2007 09:56:23 +0100 Richard Purdie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Current thinking is that lzo should get merged directly followed by the > subsystem parts through their specific trees. It appears this should > make it onto LKML despite the size so here goes. > > Please keep in mind

Re: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel

2007-05-04 Thread Satyam Sharma
Hi Richard, Pekka, On 5/2/07, Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/2/07, Richard Purdie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I realise a maze of ifdefs still remain. I've already spent a lot of > time removing a ton of them and going much further might start to affect > diffability of the code -

Re: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel

2007-05-02 Thread Pekka Enberg
On 5/2/07, Richard Purdie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I realise a maze of ifdefs still remain. I've already spent a lot of time removing a ton of them and going much further might start to affect diffability of the code - I hoping whats there is a good compromise. I really don't think this is su