Updated Zstd Planned For Linux 5.16 With Better Performance

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Updated Zstd Planned For Linux 5.16 With Better Performance

As reported on last week, an updated Zstd implementation for the Linux kernel is being re-attempted by Zstd developer Nick Terrell at Facebook. Today he sent out the latest Zstd kernel patches to provide a much newer version of the code compared to what is currently mainlined and will provide much better performance and numerous fixes...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Zstd-Linux-5.16-Plans

[perpetually high]

I think these are the new zstd-upstream patches-v4 that lucjan added if any needs. (edit: fixed updated link)

[Mario Junior]

Now we need benchmarks

[Quackdoc]

Fingers crossed. zstd has been a game changer for me personally, and would love to see it get better

[perpetually high]

Fingers crossed. zstd has been a game changer for me personally, and would love to see it get better

Would you expand on that? I'm using lz4 but I was wondering your uses cases or where you saw major improvements.

[Quackdoc]

Would you expand on that? I'm using lz4 but I was wondering your uses cases or where you saw major improvements.

Forgive my brevity, am on mobile and little sleep. I use zstd for both zram and storage compression on a 64gb 4gb ram dualcore celeron.

lz4 while faster has lower compression ratio. almost a difference of 2.1x in lz4, and 2.8x on zstd, while it sounds small, when you need as much space as you can get, it makes a difference.

for me, zstd enabled me to once again use the device for daily usage, webbrowsing, typing and music simultaneously. as now even basic research can saturate low ram.

[bug77]

It's always easy to get 10-20% more out of a compressor. If you let it use double the RAM. I hope that's now what we're looking at here.

[_r00t-]

I hope that it will overtake lzo in terms of speed.

[cl333r]

It's always easy to get 10-20% more out of a compressor. If you let it use double the RAM. I hope that's now what we're looking at here.

Did you mean "not"?

[sinepgib]

Did you mean "not"?

I don't know, for booting it may actually be a good thing. Say, computers ~15 years old already had 1GB+ as a relatively common case. During boot I will only be decompressing the kernel and initramfs and freeing that memory afterwards. I'd be happy with using up to 512MB for that if it makes it much faster. For the zram case it would be problematic tho, if compressing a 4kB page takes up 1MB for example.