Re: Big TCG slowdown when using zstd with aarch64

[Thomas Huth]

On 02/06/2023 11.10, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
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> IMHO this feels like just another example of compression being largely
> useless. The CPU overhead of compression can't keep up with the guest
> dirty workload, making the supposedly network bandwidth saving irrelevant.

Has anybody ever shown that there is a benefit in some use cases with 
compression? ... if not, we should maybe deprecate this feature and remove 
it in a couple of releases if nobody complains. That would mean less code to 
maintain, less testing effort, and likely no disadvantages for the users.

 Thomas