From b589c8ae095b3d4f4181a6aefb26df5e762d6499 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andi Kleen Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 12:47:59 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Kbuild: use normal compression settings for tar*-pkg For large kernel configurations (like a distribution kernel) targz-pkg takes a quite long time to just do the compression. I clocked it at 15+mins for a SUSE kernel like config on a fast system. And tarxz and bzip2 are even slower. The main reason is that the script that is doing the taring sets the highest compression level (-9). When I change it to just use the defaults the gzip time for the same kernel goes down to ~3 mins. I haven't tested xz and bzip, but I expect those to be much faster too. I'm not willing to wait that long for a small compression gain. So just change the script to use the defaults. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Reviewed-by: Fengguang Wu Signed-off-by: Michal Marek --- scripts/package/buildtar | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/package/buildtar b/scripts/package/buildtar index 8a7b155..632377f 100644 --- a/scripts/package/buildtar +++ b/scripts/package/buildtar @@ -28,15 +28,15 @@ case "${1}" in file_ext="" ;; targz-pkg) - compress="gzip -c9" + compress="gzip" file_ext=".gz" ;; tarbz2-pkg) - compress="bzip2 -c9" + compress="bzip2" file_ext=".bz2" ;; tarxz-pkg) - compress="xz -c9" + compress="xz" file_ext=".xz" ;; *) -- 2.7.4