Re: [RFC] LZO de/compression support - take 4

["Satyam Sharma" <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>]

Hi Daniel,

On 5/26/07, Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net> wrote:
> On Friday 25 May 2007 12:55:21 Daniel Hazelton wrote:
> <snip>
> > As to the performance - I can see absolutely no reason why the minimal
> > version shouldn't perform the same (or better). The kernel codes memset and
> > memcpy routines have been heavily tested *and* optimized over the years and
> > moving from macro's to inline functions shouldn't have impacted performance
> > at all. I will be testing the two code bases myself in a little bit - I'm
> > more than a little paranoid and don't like the idea of trusting anyone with
> > a "competing project" for all testing.
>
>
> I'll have to better instrument my test code (a real quick (userspace) hack)
> using the minimized LZO1X implementation (take 4 :) and the complete LZOv2
> library (lzo1x_1_11_compress and the *unsafe* version of the decompressor
> used) but preliminary testing using just "time ./test" - the differences I've
> seen might be because I'm directly including one version of the code and the
> other is in a shared library. But even if I discount the system and user
> time - going *only* by the "real" time value I get results across 10 runs
> that differ by less than 0.001s - the average across 10 runs of the stripped
> down LZO code is about 0.00133s where the LZO library (liblzo2) returns about
> even performance - average is 0.001s.
>
> A total difference of *ONE* *THIRD* of *ONE* *THOUSANDTH* of a second. With
> the better performance being in-kernel should bring, I can see no reason for
> a "big" difference.
>
> If anyone's interested in the code I used for the test, let me know and I'll
> make it available.

Yes, please do. It'd be nice if numbers are compared across arch's (LE,
BE, 32-bit, 64-bit) by others who have access to such boxes too.

Thanks,
Satyam
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