[PATCH 1/2] staging: Add Snappy compression library

[Randy Dunlap]

On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 00:48:26 +0300 Zeev Tarantov wrote:

> From: Zeev Tarantov <zeev.tarantov at gmail.com>
> 
> Google's Snappy data compression library is a faster alternative to LZO,
> optimized for x86-64. On compressible input it compresses ~2.5x faster than LZO
> and decompresses ~1.5-2x faster than LZO. On incompressible input, it skips the
> input at 100x faster than LZO and decompresses ~4x faster than LZO.
> It is released under BSD license.
> This is a kernel port from user space C++ code.
> The current intended use is with zram (see next patch in series).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zeev Tarantov <zeev.tarantov at gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/Kconfig                     |    2 +
>  drivers/staging/Makefile                    |    2 +
>  drivers/staging/snappy/Makefile             |    5 +
>  drivers/staging/snappy/csnappy.h            |  125 +++++++
>  drivers/staging/snappy/csnappy_compress.c   |  497 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/staging/snappy/csnappy_decompress.c |  321 +++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/staging/snappy/csnappy_internal.h   |   83 +++++
>  7 files changed, 1035 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/Kconfig
> index dca4a0b..6c222f0 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/staging/Kconfig
> @@ -123,6 +123,8 @@ source "drivers/staging/iio/Kconfig"
>  
>  source "drivers/staging/cs5535_gpio/Kconfig"
>  
> +source "drivers/staging/snappy/Kconfig"

used zram/Kconfig instead?
I don't see a snappy/Kconfig file in patch 1 or patch 2.


>  source "drivers/staging/zram/Kconfig"
>  
>  source "drivers/staging/zcache/Kconfig"

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~Randy
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