Re: [PATCH 3/3] ARM: compressed: Enable ZSTD compression

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Wed Apr 12 2023 - 17:45:34 EST


On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 11:22 PM Jonathan Neuschäfer
<j.neuschaefer@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> With the previous two commits, it is possible to enable ZSTD
> in the decompressor stub for 32-bit ARM.
>
> Unfortunately, ZSTD decompression has been quite slow in my tests
> (on ARM926EJ-S, ARMv5T):
>
> - LZO: 7.2 MiB, 6 seconds
> - ZSTD: 5.6 MiB, 60 seconds
>
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@xxxxxxx>

Disappointingly slow, but not all systems are 926, and
not all memory hierarchies are as slow.
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>

Yours,
Linus Walleij