Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Feb 2014 13:59:12 +0000 | From | Luis Henriques <> | Subject | Re: Possible stable fix for decompressor speed |
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On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 04:14:28PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > The changes in patch 1431574a1c4c (lib/decompressors: fix "no limit" > output buffer length) avoid doing decompression a byte at a time when > decompressing into high physical addresses using a small, well isolated > change. The patch can give a very noticable improvement in kernel boot > times on affected systems, for example with one ARM system this reduces > the total time to boot the kernel by more than a third. > > Would you consider this patch for stable? It doesn't quite fit within > the criteria but you've indicated in the past that such isolated and > well supported changs can be acceptable anyway. If it's not OK for > stable it seems like it should be a good candidate for LTSI.
Thanks Mark, I'm queuing this for the 3.5 and the 3.11 kernels as well.
Cheers, -- Luis
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