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Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author	Files	Lines
2013-11-20	Squashfs: Generalise paging handling in the decompressors	Phillip Lougher	1	-5/+4
	Further generalise the decompressors by adding a page handler abstraction. This adds helpers to allow the decompressors to access and process the output buffers in an implementation independant manner. This allows different types of output buffer to be passed to the decompressors, with the implementation specific aspects handled at decompression time, but without the knowledge being held in the decompressor wrapper code. This will allow the decompressors to handle Squashfs cache buffers, and page cache pages. This patch adds the abstraction and an implementation for the caches. Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
2013-11-20	Squashfs: add multi-threaded decompression using percpu variable	Phillip Lougher	1	-0/+98
	Add a multi-threaded decompression implementation which uses percpu variables. Using percpu variables has advantages and disadvantages over implementations which do not use percpu variables. Advantages: * the nature of percpu variables ensures decompression is load-balanced across the multiple cores. * simplicity. Disadvantages: it limits decompression to one thread per core. Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk>