tree 5683c8f7639c4c4230e93f2633b9bf5258e4eb6f
parent 93d09773d1a5339160e23906c68c42644e13e3d8
author Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> 1721568988 +0300
committer Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> 1725248606 -0700

xz: use 128 MiB dictionary and force single-threaded mode

This only affects kernel image compression, not any other xz usage.

Desktop kernels on x86-64 are already around 60 MiB.  Using a dictionary
larger than 32 MiB should have no downsides nowadays as anyone building
the kernel should have plenty of RAM.  128 MiB dictionary needs 1346 MiB
of RAM with xz versions 5.0.x - 5.6.x in single-threaded mode.  On archs
that use xz_wrap.sh, kernel decompression is done in single-call mode so a
larger dictionary doesn't affect boot-time memory requirements.

xz >= 5.6.0 uses multithreaded mode by default which compresses slightly
worse than single-threaded mode.  Kernel compression rarely used more than
one thread anyway because with 32 MiB dictionary size the default block
size was 96 MiB in multithreaded mode.  So only a single thread was used
anyway unless the kernel was over 96 MiB.

Comparison to CONFIG_KERNEL_LZMA: It uses "lzma -9" which mapped to 32 MiB
dictionary in LZMA Utils 4.32.7 (the final release in 2008).  Nowadays the
lzma tool on most systems is from XZ Utils where -9 maps to 64 MiB
dictionary.  So using a 32 MiB dictionary with CONFIG_KERNEL_XZ may have
compressed big kernels slightly worse than the old LZMA option.

Comparison to CONFIG_KERNEL_ZSTD: zstd uses 128 MiB dictionary.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240721133633.47721-14-lasse.collin@tukaani.org
Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
Reviewed-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Emil Renner Berthing <emil.renner.berthing@canonical.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Jubin Zhong <zhongjubin@huawei.com>
Cc: Jules Maselbas <jmaselbas@zdiv.net>
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Rui Li <me@lirui.org>
Cc: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>