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Commit d208383d authored by Phillip Lougher's avatar Phillip Lougher
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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: default avatarPhillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk>
parent cd59c2ec
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