Introduce squashfs compression threshold
If we can't beat that compression ratio for a single block then we leave
it uncompressed. The choice of the threshold depends on the cost of I/O
in a specific device which is determined from block I/O speed and CPU
speed.
BUG: 29058965
Change-Id: I77626bb84e20cc22508e7f5174abf0de8a4c8ce0
Signed-off-by: Mohamad Ayyash <mkayyash@google.com>
diff --git a/squashfs-tools/mksquashfs.c b/squashfs-tools/mksquashfs.c
index 3501a9f..f909c69 100644
--- a/squashfs-tools/mksquashfs.c
+++ b/squashfs-tools/mksquashfs.c
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@
char *mount_point = NULL;
char *target_out_path = NULL;
fs_config_func_t fs_config_func = NULL;
+int compress_thresh_per = 0;
#endif
/* ANDROID CHANGES END */
@@ -433,7 +434,8 @@
"code %d\n", comp->name, error);
}
- if(c_byte == 0 || c_byte >= size) {
+ if(c_byte == 0 || c_byte >= size ||
+ (c_byte > (size * ((100.0 - compress_thresh_per) / 100.0)))) {
memcpy(d, s, size);
return size | (data_block ? SQUASHFS_COMPRESSED_BIT_BLOCK :
SQUASHFS_COMPRESSED_BIT);
@@ -5635,6 +5637,21 @@
}
fs_config_file = argv[i];
}
+ else if(strcmp(argv[i], "-t") == 0) {
+ if(++i == argc) {
+ ERROR("%s: -t missing compression threshold percentage\n", argv[0]);
+ exit(1);
+ }
+ if(!parse_number(argv[i], &compress_thresh_per, 1)) {
+ ERROR("%s: -t invalid compression threshold percentage\n", argv[0]);
+ exit(1);
+ }
+ if(compress_thresh_per > 100 || compress_thresh_per < 0) {
+ ERROR("%s: -t compression threshold percentage not between 0 and 100\n",
+ argv[0]);
+ exit(1);
+ }
+ }
#endif
/* ANDROID CHANGES END */
else if(strcmp(argv[i], "-nopad") == 0)
@@ -5714,6 +5731,10 @@
"of reading xattrs from file system\n");
ERROR("-fs-config-file <file>\tAndroid specific "
"filesystem config file\n");
+ ERROR("-t <compress_thresh>\tset minimum "
+ "acceptable compression ratio of a block to\n\t\t\t"
+ "<compress_thresh_per> otherwise don't compress. "
+ "Default 0%\n");
#endif
/* ANDROID CHANGES END */
ERROR("-noI\t\t\tdo not compress inode table\n");
@@ -5744,7 +5765,7 @@
"android-fs-config or context-file\n\t\t\tare "
"enabled and source directory is not mount point\n");
ERROR("-product-out <path>\tPRODUCT_OUT directory to "
- "read device specific FS rules files from\n");
+ "read device specific FS rules files from\n");
#endif
/* ANDROID CHANGES END */
ERROR("\nFilesystem filter options:\n");
