[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 2/4] util/disk_cache: compress individual cache entries

[Timothy Arceri]

On 02/03/17 18:45, Tobias Droste wrote:
> Hi Timothy,
>
> if you plan to support multiple compression algorithms, shouldn't "struct
> cache_entry_file_data" contain some info about what compression algorithm was
> used to compress the data? Or is this already there and I missed it?

I don't plan to support more than one. I'm just saying it's a 
possibility for the future, depending on further analysis and 
requirements from different hardware. But right now I would just like to 
land zlib support so we have a baseline to work from.

>
> Am Donnerstag, 2. März 2017, 03:20:05 CET schrieb Matt Turner:
>> On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 2:19 PM, Timothy Arceri <tarceri at itsqueeze.com>
> wrote:
>>> IMO we should go with zlib and people can provide future patches with
>>> justifications/stats for using a different library over zlib just like we
>>> do for any other performance based patch.
>>
>> Yes, agreed. "Which compression should we use?" is one of the easiest
>> bikesheds to paint.
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