Loading from squashfs with zstd compression slower than ext4

[Simon Glass]

Hi Jonathan,

On Wed, 31 May 2023 at 06:52, Jonathan Liu <net147 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I noticed that loading from squashfs with zstd compression is
> significantly slower than ext4 on RK3399 using U-Boot 2022.01. The
> filesystem is located on eMMC.
>
> I have CONFIG_BLOCK_CACHE=y in .config and am using the generic load command.
>
> ext4:
> 15682578 bytes read in 366 ms (40.9 MiB/s)
>
> SquashFS with zstd compression:
> 15685001 bytes read in 2339 ms (6.4 MiB/s)
>
> Any suggestions on how to speed up loading from SquashFS with zstd compression?

Could it just be that zstd is slow? Have you tried lz4?

Regards,
Simon