the following patch was just integrated into master: commit c88d16baaf3e88029b40d43eb254e90613b95187 Author: Patrick Georgi pgeorgi@chromium.org Date: Wed Jan 11 15:26:58 2017 +0100
util/cbfstool: Add cbfs-compression-tool
cbfs-compression-tool provides a way to benchmark the compression algorithms as used by cbfstool (and coreboot) and allows to pre-compress data for later consumption by cbfstool (once it supports the format).
For an impression, the benchmark's results on my machine:
measuring 'none' compressing 10485760 bytes to 10485760 took 0 seconds measuring 'LZMA' compressing 10485760 bytes to 1736 took 2 seconds measuring 'LZ4' compressing 10485760 bytes to 41880 took 0 seconds
And a possible use for external compression, parallel and non-parallel (60MB in 53 files compressed to 650KB on a machine with 40 threads):
$ time (ls -1 *.* |xargs -n 1 -P $(nproc) -I '{}' cbfs-compression-tool compress '{}' out/'{}' LZMA)
real 0m0.786s user 0m11.440s sys 0m0.044s
$ time (ls -1 *.* |xargs -n 1 -P 1 -I '{}' cbfs-compression-tool compress '{}' out/'{}' LZMA)
real 0m10.444s user 0m10.280s sys 0m0.064s
Change-Id: I40be087e85d09a895b1ed277270350ab65a4d6d4 Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi pgeorgi@chromium.org Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/18099 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Martin Roth martinroth@google.com
See https://review.coreboot.org/18099 for details.
-gerrit