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From: markus@oberhumer•com (Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 02:37:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <510F10C4.2080903@oberhumer.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <510B6829.7050908@lge.com>

On 2013-02-01 08:00, kyungsik.lee wrote:
> On 2013-01-30 ?? 6:09, Rajesh Pawar wrote:
>>> Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation•org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:50:43 +0900
>>> Kyungsik Lee <kyungsik.lee@lge•com> 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 lot of code for a 50ms boot-time improvement. Does anyone have
>>> any opinions on whether or not the benefits are worth the cost?
>> BTW, what happened to the proposed LZO update - woudn't it better to merge
>> this first?
>>
>> Also, under the hood LZ4 seems to be quite similar to LZO, so probably
>> LZO speed would also greatly benefit from unaligned access and some other
>> ARM optimisations
>>   
> I didn't test with the proposed LZO update you mentioned. Sorry, which one do
> you mean?
> I did some tests with the latest LZO in the mainline.

In fact you can easily improve LZO decompression speed on armv7 by almost 50%
by adding just a few lines for enabling unaligend access:

armv7 (Cortex-A9), Linaro gcc-4.6 -O3, Silesia test corpus, 256 kB block-size:

                   compression speed   decompression speed

  LZO-2005    :          27 MB/sec           84 MB/sec
  LZO-2012    :          44 MB/sec          117 MB/sec
  LZO-2013-UA :          47 MB/sec          167 MB/sec

Please see my other mail to LKML for details.

Cheers,
Markus

> As a result, LZO is not faster in an unaligned access enabled on ARM. Actually
> Slower.
> 
> Decompression time: 336ms(383ms, with unaligned access enabled)
> 
> You may refer to https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/7/85 to know more about it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Kyungsik
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Kyungsik
> 

-- 
Markus Oberhumer, <markus@oberhumer•com>, http://www.oberhumer.com/

  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-04  1:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-26  5:50 [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels Kyungsik Lee
2013-01-26  5:50 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] decompressors: add lz4 decompressor module Kyungsik Lee
2013-01-26  5:50 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] lib: add support for LZ4-compressed kernels Kyungsik Lee
2013-01-26  5:50 ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] arm: " Kyungsik Lee
2013-01-26  5:50 ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] x86: " Kyungsik Lee
2013-01-28 22:25 ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add " Andrew Morton
2013-01-29  1:16   ` kyungsik.lee
2013-01-29  4:29   ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-29  6:18     ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-30 10:23     ` Johannes Stezenbach
2013-02-04  2:02       ` Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer
2013-02-04 10:50         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-02-05 11:39           ` Johannes Stezenbach
2013-01-29  7:26   ` Richard Cochran
2013-01-29 10:15   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-29 11:43     ` Egon Alter
2013-01-29 12:15       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-02-01  8:15       ` kyungsik.lee
2013-01-30  3:36     ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-30 18:33       ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-31 21:48         ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-31 22:16           ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-31 22:18             ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-02-01  2:28               ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-01  6:37                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-29 21:09   ` Rajesh Pawar
2013-02-01  7:00     ` kyungsik.lee
2013-02-04  1:37       ` Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer [this message]
2013-01-29 22:55 ` David Sterba
2013-01-30  4:03   ` 이경식
2013-01-30  4:27   ` 이경식
2013-02-01  7:13   ` kyungsik.lee

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