Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels

2013-02-05 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 10:50:52AM +, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 03:02:49AM +0100, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrote: > > At least akpm did approve the LZO update for inclusion into 3.7, but the > > code > > still has not been merged into the main tree. > > > On 20

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels

2013-02-04 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 03:02:49AM +0100, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrote: > At least akpm did approve the LZO update for inclusion into 3.7, but the code > still has not been merged into the main tree. > > On 2012-10-09 21:26, Andrew Morton wrote: > > [...] > > The changes look OK to me. Plea

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels

2013-02-03 Thread Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer
On 2013-02-01 08:00, kyungsik.lee wrote: > On 2013-01-30 오전 6:09, Rajesh Pawar wrote: >>> Andrew Morton wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:50:43 +0900 >>> Kyungsik Lee wrote: [...] >>> What's this "with enabled unaligned memory access" thing? You mean "if >>> the arch supports CONFIG

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels

2013-02-03 Thread Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer
On 2013-01-30 11:23, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:29:14PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: >> On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Andrew Morton wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:50:43 +0900 >>> Kyungsik Lee wrote: >>> This patchset is for supporting LZ4 compressed kernel and initial

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels

2013-02-01 Thread kyungsik.lee
On 2013-01-29 오후 8:43, Egon Alter wrote: Am Dienstag, 29. Januar 2013, 10:15:49 schrieb Russell King - ARM Linux: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 02:25:10PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: What's this "with enabled unaligned memory access" thing? You mean "if the arch supports CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIG

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels

2013-01-31 Thread kyungsik.lee
On 2013-01-30 오전 7:55, David Sterba wrote: On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 02:50:43PM +0900, Kyungsik Lee wrote: This patchset is for supporting LZ4 compressed kernel and initial ramdisk on the x86 and ARM architectures. Have you considered the 'high compression' mode of lz4? http://code.google.com/p/l

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels

2013-01-31 Thread kyungsik.lee
On 2013-01-30 오전 6:09, Rajesh Pawar wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:50:43 +0900 Kyungsik Lee wrote: This patchset is for supporting LZ4 compressed kernel and initial ramdisk on the x86 and ARM architectures. According to [[http://code.google.com/p/lz4/,]] LZ4 is a very fas

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels

2013-01-31 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 01/31/2013 06:28 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: >> >> Well, it is too nasty for public confession, but it's called >> "paravirtualization". > > The fact that you are aware of it means we're not going to break them. > > But my point is that we must not be held back just in case someone out > there

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels

2013-01-31 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Thu, 31 Jan 2013, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 01/31/2013 02:16 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > >> > >> Some utterly weird things like the Xen domain builder do that, because > >> they have to. That is why we explicitly document that the payload is > >> ELF and how to access it in the bzImage spec. >

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels

2013-01-31 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 01/31/2013 02:16 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: >> >> Some utterly weird things like the Xen domain builder do that, because >> they have to. That is why we explicitly document that the payload is >> ELF and how to access it in the bzImage spec. > > Are you kidding? > > And what format do they expe

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels

2013-01-31 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Thu, 31 Jan 2013, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 01/30/2013 10:33 AM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > >> > >> The only concern I have with that is if someone paints themselves into a > >> corner and absolutely wants, say, LZO. > > > > That would be hard to justify given that the kernel provides its own >

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels

2013-01-31 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 01/30/2013 10:33 AM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: >> >> The only concern I have with that is if someone paints themselves into a >> corner and absolutely wants, say, LZO. > > That would be hard to justify given that the kernel provides its own > decompressor code, making the compression format transpa

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels

2013-01-30 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 01/29/2013 02:15 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 02:25:10PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > What's this "with enabled unaligned memory access" thing? You mean "if > > > the arch supports CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIG

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels

2013-01-30 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:29:14PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:50:43 +0900 > > Kyungsik Lee wrote: > > > > > This patchset is for supporting LZ4 compressed kernel and initial ramdisk > > > on > > > the x86 and ARM architec

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels

2013-01-29 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 01/29/2013 02:15 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 02:25:10PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: What's this "with enabled unaligned memory access" thing? You mean "if the arch supports CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS"? If so, that's only x86, which isn't really in

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels

2013-01-29 Thread David Sterba
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 02:50:43PM +0900, Kyungsik Lee wrote: > This patchset is for supporting LZ4 compressed kernel and initial ramdisk on > the x86 and ARM architectures. Have you considered the 'high compression' mode of lz4? http://code.google.com/p/lz4/source/browse/trunk/lz4hc.c The compre

RE: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels

2013-01-29 Thread Rajesh Pawar
> Andrew Morton wrote: > >On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:50:43 +0900 >Kyungsik Lee wrote: >> This patchset is for supporting LZ4 compressed kernel and initial ramdisk on >> the x86 and ARM architectures. >> >> According to [[http://code.google.com/p/lz4/,]] LZ4 is a very fast lossless >> compression alg

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels

2013-01-29 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:43:20PM +0100, Egon Alter wrote: > Am Dienstag, 29. Januar 2013, 10:15:49 schrieb Russell King - ARM Linux: > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 02:25:10PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > What's this "with enabled unaligned memory access" thing? You mean "if > > > the arch supp

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels

2013-01-29 Thread Egon Alter
Am Dienstag, 29. Januar 2013, 10:15:49 schrieb Russell King - ARM Linux: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 02:25:10PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > What's this "with enabled unaligned memory access" thing? You mean "if > > the arch supports CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS"? If so, > > that's onl

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels

2013-01-29 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 02:25:10PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > What's this "with enabled unaligned memory access" thing? You mean "if > the arch supports CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS"? If so, > that's only x86, which isn't really in the target market for this > patch, yes? > > It's a

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels

2013-01-28 Thread Richard Cochran
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 02:25:10PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > It's a lot of code for a 50ms boot-time improvement. Does anyone have > any opinions on whether or not the benefits are worth the cost? In the embedded space, quick boot is a really important feature to have. Many people resort t

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels

2013-01-28 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Uhm... you're saying we have to be at one extreme or the other? We probably could drop the legacy lzma format, but someone might rely on it. Nicolas Pitre wrote: >On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Andrew Morton wrote: > >> On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:50:43 +0900 >> Kyungsik Lee wrote: >> >> > This patchset is

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels

2013-01-28 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:50:43 +0900 > Kyungsik Lee wrote: > > > This patchset is for supporting LZ4 compressed kernel and initial ramdisk on > > the x86 and ARM architectures. > > > > According to http://code.google.com/p/lz4/, LZ4 is a very fast lossl

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels

2013-01-28 Thread kyungsik.lee
On 2013-01-29 오전 7:25, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:50:43 +0900 Kyungsik Lee wrote: This patchset is for supporting LZ4 compressed kernel and initial ramdisk on the x86 and ARM architectures. According to http://code.google.com/p/lz4/, LZ4 is a very fast lossless compression al

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels

2013-01-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:50:43 +0900 Kyungsik Lee wrote: > This patchset is for supporting LZ4 compressed kernel and initial ramdisk on > the x86 and ARM architectures. > > According to http://code.google.com/p/lz4/, LZ4 is a very fast lossless > compression algorithm and also features an extremel