Re: Drop support to compressed modules?

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Sun Sep 23 2012 - 09:28:38 EST



On Friday 2012-09-21 23:41, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
>
>While fixing a bug in kmod related to using compressed modules (that
>already existed in module-init-tools) we stopped to think about these
>questions. Dave made a couple of benchmarks and performance wise it's
>better to use uncompressed modules than modules with gz or xz
>compression. However the benchmark was done in only 1 computer. I do
>expect people with slow storage to have different numbers though. Does
>anyone have these numbers?

What benchmark should be run?
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