Hi!
> Perhaps you have opinion of maintaining diffability with
> original LZO
> code which differs from mine. Since the code is now just
> ~500 lines it
> should be fair enough to have major overhauls for sake
> of clean
> KernelStyle(tm) code. It shouldn't be that hard to
> verify this small
> code for bugs that might have crept in during porting
> work. As regard
> to keeping up with future LZO versions, hm.... that will
> be hard - but
> I don't think algorithm itself will change and
> optimizations can
> always be done separately in this fork.
>
> >
> >> I'd agree with the proposed renaming. In fact I'd
> >suggest that the unsafe
> >> APIs just be removed - it's hard to imagine a
> >situation in which they're OK
> >> to be used in the kernel.
> >
> >The compressed cache code might be one exception since
> >it does the
> >compression itself and shouldn't get corrupted. If it
> >does get
> >corrupted, you have bigger problems.
> >
>
> Yes. Compressed Caching is one of cases where compressed
> data cannot
> get magically corrupted. Hence, there is no need to go
> for the 'safe'
> version. There might be other such cases too, so
> removing 'unsafe'
> version is not good.
What is the performance difference between safe and unsafe version?
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