Squashfs: add multi-threaded decompression using percpu variable
authorPhillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk>
Mon, 18 Nov 2013 02:31:36 +0000 (02:31 +0000)
committerMohamad Ayyash <mkayyash@google.com>
Wed, 4 Mar 2015 19:22:13 +0000 (11:22 -0800)
commit887bd836dc38e36525154e7dc592e5bc5e7e322c
treeed6a5752c97fc56f1b0f70b2017079dfbd6e441b
parentc0f8b08ad95ca0724ac465c391aef3fc456f5aa9
Squashfs: add multi-threaded decompression using percpu variable

Add a multi-threaded decompression implementation which uses
percpu variables.

Using percpu variables has advantages and disadvantages over
implementations which do not use percpu variables.

Advantages:
  * the nature of percpu variables ensures decompression is
    load-balanced across the multiple cores.
  * simplicity.

Disadvantages: it limits decompression to one thread per core.

Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk>
fs/squashfs/Kconfig
fs/squashfs/Makefile
fs/squashfs/decompressor_multi_percpu.c [new file with mode: 0644]