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Makefile: use smaller dictionary size for xz module compression
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By default, xz without parameters uses a dictionary size of 8 MB.
However, most modules are much smaller than that.
The xz manpage states that 'increasing dictionary size usually improves
compression ratio, but a dictionary bigger than the uncompressed file
is waste of memory'.
Use a dictionary size of 2 MB for module compression, resulting in
slightly higher compression speed while still maintaining a good
compression ratio.

Signed-off-by: Tor Vic <torvic9@mailbox.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
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Tor Vic authored and Masahiro Yamada committed Feb 11, 2021
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Expand Up @@ -1053,7 +1053,7 @@ ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS
mod_compress_cmd = $(KGZIP) -n -f
endif # CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
mod_compress_cmd = $(XZ) -f
mod_compress_cmd = $(XZ) --lzma2=dict=2MiB -f
endif # CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
endif # CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS
export mod_compress_cmd
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