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Patches Provide For Much Faster In-Kernel Zstd Due To Embarrassingly Bad Inefficiency


Patches sent out to the Linux kernel mailing list today can provide much more efficient Zstd compression and decompression by addressing a very unfortunate oversight in the existing code.

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