Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 2/8] linux-mod.eclass: compress xz/zstd in parallel

[Sam James]

Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> writes:

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> What is the motivation for this? The typical kernel module on my system
> has a size of about 20 KiB uncompressed, with the largest about 2 MiB.
> Compression times are negligible for these, so is there a need to
> optimize?

Note that this is only for external kernel modules. The motivation
for these is mostly for slower systems with many cores, but
slower per-core speeds (I have a bunch of ARM64 devices
like that).

>
> Ulrich
>
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thanks,
sam