Re: [RFC] LZO de/compression support - take 3

["Bret Towe" <magnade@gmail.com>]

On 5/24/07, Nitin Gupta <nitingupta910@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/23/07, Bret Towe <magnade@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 5/23/07, Nitin Gupta <nitingupta910@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > For now, tested on x86 only.
> >
> > If you have a program to test this I can run it on an amd64 and a g4 ppc
> >
>
> Attached is the kernel module (compress-test) to test this LZO code.
> Just compile this module against 2.6.22-rc2 with this LZO patch. Then
> testing can be done as:
> 1- Mount DebugFS somewhere e.g:
> mkdir /debug; mount -t debugfs debugfs /debug
> 2- Load the module and do:
> cat /path/to/some_file > /debug/compress_test/compress
> (/var/log/messages should show that compression was successful)
> 3- Then decompress this file as:
> cat /debug/compress_test/decompress > /tmp/t
> (/var/log/messages should show that decompression was successful)
> 4- For extra verification do:
> diff /tmp/t /path/to/some_file   -- O/P must be empty
>
>
> Thanks!
> Nitin
>
>

the test worked fine on amd64
from dmesg:
LZO compress successful: orig_size=17448, comp_size=8183
LZO decompress successful: decomp_size=17448

and input and output files I gave it:
sha1sum test-input output
2221c586e3eb869af7f4333d4f56b441b9aa8414  test-input
2221c586e3eb869af7f4333d4f56b441b9aa8414  output

(will be giving the ppc box the same file to test btw when I get to it)

and I don't know if it matters much but I tried feeding it a 260k file
and it didn't like it

cat /usr/bin/yelp > /debug/compress_test/compress
cat: write error: No space left on device