On Sun, 20 Feb 2022 00:01:50 +0100 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Steven mentioned that trace-cmd recently gained compression support. I > suggest to remove zlib since there is no real benefit to use this > compression algorithm. One benefit is to just have a test case for multiple versions. And who knows, if it is an easy implementation, perhaps there's something that needs it in a very limited embedded environment? Does it really hurt keeping it, even though it may never be used? > It might make sense to use zstd while dumping the per-CPU data files > disks before the trace.dat is written. It probably makes sense to use > zstd by default instead of storing the .dat file uncompressed. I have a patch that does the compression by default. I'm holding off pushing it until I finished my testing of the compressed versions. Thanks Sebastian for this update! -- Steve
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