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Linus Torvalds e7cdb60fd2 Merge branch 'zstd-minimal' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs
Pull zstd support from Chris Mason:
 "Nick Terrell's patch series to add zstd support to the kernel has been
  floating around for a while. After talking with Dave Sterba, Herbert
  and Phillip, we decided to send the whole thing in as one pull
  request.

  zstd is a big win in speed over zlib and in compression ratio over
  lzo, and the compression team here at FB has gotten great results
  using it in production. Nick will continue to update the kernel side
  with new improvements from the open source zstd userland code.

  Nick has a number of benchmarks for the main zstd code in his lib/zstd
  commit:

      I ran the benchmarks on a Ubuntu 14.04 VM with 2 cores and 4 GiB
      of RAM. The VM is running on a MacBook Pro with a 3.1 GHz Intel
      Core i7 processor, 16 GB of RAM, and a SSD. I benchmarked using
      `silesia.tar` [3], which is 211,988,480 B large. Run the following
      commands for the benchmark:

        sudo modprobe zstd_compress_test
        sudo mknod zstd_compress_test c 245 0
        sudo cp silesia.tar zstd_compress_test

      The time is reported by the time of the userland `cp`.
      The MB/s is computed with

        1,536,217,008 B / time(buffer size, hash)

      which includes the time to copy from userland.
      The Adjusted MB/s is computed with

        1,536,217,088 B / (time(buffer size, hash) - time(buffer size, none)).

      The memory reported is the amount of memory the compressor
      requests.

        | Method   | Size (B) | Time (s) | Ratio | MB/s    | Adj MB/s | Mem (MB) |
        |----------|----------|----------|-------|---------|----------|----------|
        | none     | 11988480 |    0.100 |     1 | 2119.88 |        - |        - |
        | zstd -1  | 73645762 |    1.044 | 2.878 |  203.05 |   224.56 |     1.23 |
        | zstd -3  | 66988878 |    1.761 | 3.165 |  120.38 |   127.63 |     2.47 |
        | zstd -5  | 65001259 |    2.563 | 3.261 |   82.71 |    86.07 |     2.86 |
        | zstd -10 | 60165346 |   13.242 | 3.523 |   16.01 |    16.13 |    13.22 |
        | zstd -15 | 58009756 |   47.601 | 3.654 |    4.45 |     4.46 |    21.61 |
        | zstd -19 | 54014593 |  102.835 | 3.925 |    2.06 |     2.06 |    60.15 |
        | zlib -1  | 77260026 |    2.895 | 2.744 |   73.23 |    75.85 |     0.27 |
        | zlib -3  | 72972206 |    4.116 | 2.905 |   51.50 |    52.79 |     0.27 |
        | zlib -6  | 68190360 |    9.633 | 3.109 |   22.01 |    22.24 |     0.27 |
        | zlib -9  | 67613382 |   22.554 | 3.135 |    9.40 |     9.44 |     0.27 |

      I benchmarked zstd decompression using the same method on the same
      machine. The benchmark file is located in the upstream zstd repo
      under `contrib/linux-kernel/zstd_decompress_test.c` [4]. The
      memory reported is the amount of memory required to decompress
      data compressed with the given compression level. If you know the
      maximum size of your input, you can reduce the memory usage of
      decompression irrespective of the compression level.

        | Method   | Time (s) | MB/s    | Adjusted MB/s | Memory (MB) |
        |----------|----------|---------|---------------|-------------|
        | none     |    0.025 | 8479.54 |             - |           - |
        | zstd -1  |    0.358 |  592.15 |        636.60 |        0.84 |
        | zstd -3  |    0.396 |  535.32 |        571.40 |        1.46 |
        | zstd -5  |    0.396 |  535.32 |        571.40 |        1.46 |
        | zstd -10 |    0.374 |  566.81 |        607.42 |        2.51 |
        | zstd -15 |    0.379 |  559.34 |        598.84 |        4.61 |
        | zstd -19 |    0.412 |  514.54 |        547.77 |        8.80 |
        | zlib -1  |    0.940 |  225.52 |        231.68 |        0.04 |
        | zlib -3  |    0.883 |  240.08 |        247.07 |        0.04 |
        | zlib -6  |    0.844 |  251.17 |        258.84 |        0.04 |
        | zlib -9  |    0.837 |  253.27 |        287.64 |        0.04 |

  I ran a long series of tests and benchmarks on the btrfs side and the
  gains are very similar to the core benchmarks Nick ran"

* 'zstd-minimal' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs:
  squashfs: Add zstd support
  btrfs: Add zstd support
  lib: Add zstd modules
  lib: Add xxhash module
2017-09-14 17:30:49 -07:00
arch Merge branch 'dmi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging 2017-09-14 13:10:48 -07:00
block block: directly insert blk-mq request from blk_insert_cloned_request() 2017-09-11 16:43:57 -06:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto crypto: af_alg - get_page upon reassignment to TX SGL 2017-08-22 15:03:27 +08:00
Documentation fbdev changes for v4.14: 2017-09-14 13:33:33 -07:00
drivers - Some request-based DM core and DM multipath fixes and cleanups 2017-09-14 13:43:16 -07:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
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include Merge branch 'zstd-minimal' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs 2017-09-14 17:30:49 -07:00
init init/main.c: extract early boot entropy from the passed cmdline 2017-09-08 18:26:50 -07:00
ipc ipc: optimize semget/shmget/msgget for lots of keys 2017-09-08 18:26:51 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-09-14 12:25:34 -07:00
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samples media updates for v4.14-rc1 2017-09-07 12:53:14 -07:00
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sound dmi: Mark all struct dmi_system_id instances const 2017-09-14 11:59:30 +02:00
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Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.