[PATCH 1/2] staging: Add Snappy compression library (v3)

[Nitin Gupta]

On 04/15/2011 07:52 PM, 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>

This is needed for zram snappy compression support.
(Though I don't have any knowledge about the compression algorithm itself).

Acked-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta at vflare.org>

Thanks,
Nitin