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From: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Yann Collet <cyan@fb.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] zram: add zstd to the supported algorithms list
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 18:55:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D01CD6BA-C12D-46AB-8AC1-F03A114FC055@fb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170825045036.GA26819@blaptop>

On 8/24/17, 9:51 PM, "Minchan Kim" <minchan@kernel.org> wrote:
>Off-topic:
>
>In all ways, zstd beats deflate. Nick, Right?

Yeah. Since all LZ compression algorithms are heuristics, there are some
rare cases where zlib beats zstd in compression ratio by a bit, but never
speed. In all cases where we've deployed zstd, we've seen aggregate
compression ratio improvements over zlib, and expect the same here.

>With zstd, I doubt we should show "deflate" to user. Many options just
>make user confused.
>The inflate have been there for representing high comp ratio but slower
>speed. However, zstd is better unconditionally compared to deflate
>so how about replacing deflate with zstd?
>
>Sergey, what do you think about it?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-08-25 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-24  1:49 Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-24  4:30 ` Minchan Kim
2017-08-24 14:04   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-25  4:50     ` Minchan Kim
2017-08-25  5:06       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-25  5:27         ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-25  5:36         ` Minchan Kim
2017-08-25  7:45           ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-25  8:08             ` Adam Borowski
2017-08-25 18:55       ` Nick Terrell [this message]
     [not found] <<20170824014936.4738-1-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
2017-08-24 21:33 ` Nick Terrell
2017-08-25  0:49   ` Joonsoo Kim
2017-08-25  1:35     ` Nick Terrell
2017-08-25  1:53       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-25  2:09         ` Nick Terrell
2017-08-25  2:21           ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-25  2:46             ` Nick Terrell
2017-08-25  5:26               ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-25  2:02       ` Joonsoo Kim
2017-08-25  5:19       ` Minchan Kim
2017-08-25 19:31         ` Nick Terrell
2017-08-28  6:52           ` Minchan Kim
2017-08-25  0:51   ` Sergey Senozhatsky

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