On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 04:09:08PM +0100, Sven Schmidt wrote: > This patch updates LZ4 kernel module to LZ4 v1.7.3 by Yann Collet. > The kernel module is inspired by the previous work by Chanho Min. > The updated LZ4 module will not break existing code since there were alias > methods added to ensure backwards compatibility. > > API changes: > > New method LZ4_compress_fast which differs from the variant available > in kernel by the new acceleration parameter, > allowing to trade compression ratio for more compression speed > and vice versa. > > LZ4_decompress_fast is the respective decompression method, featuring a very > fast decoder (multiple GB/s per core), able to reach RAM speed in multi-core > systems. The decompressor allows to decompress data compressed with > LZ4 fast as well as the LZ4 HC (high compression) algorithm. > > Also the useful functions LZ4_decompress_safe_partial > LZ4_compress_destsize were added. The latter reverses the logic by trying to > compress as much data as possible from source to dest while the former aims > to decompress partial blocks of data. > > A bunch of streaming functions were also added > which allow compressig/decompressing data in multiple steps > (so called "streaming mode"). > > The methods lz4_compress and lz4_decompress_unknownoutputsize > are now known as LZ4_compress_default respectivley LZ4_decompress_safe. > The old methods are still available for providing backwards compatibility. > > Signed-off-by: Sven Schmidt <4sschmid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Please fix up so that it doesn't break the build as reported by the kbuild tool... thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
