On 01/21/2016 01:16 AM, Nikhilesh Reddy wrote: > Add support for filesystem passthrough read/write of files > when enabled in userspace through the option FUSE_PASSTHROUGH. > > There are many FUSE based filesystems that perform checks or > enforce policy or perform some kind of decision making in certain > functions like the "open" call but simply act as a "passthrough" > when performing operations such as read or write. > > When FUSE_PASSTHROUGH is enabled all the reads and writes > to the fuse mount point go directly to the passthrough filesystem > i.e a native filesystem that actually hosts the files rather than > through the fuse daemon. All requests that aren't read/write still > go thought the userspace code. > > This allows for significantly better performance on read and writes. > The difference in performance between fuse and the native lower > filesystem is negligible. > > There is also a significant cpu/power savings that is achieved which > is really important on embedded systems that use fuse for I/O. > > Signed-off-by: Nikhilesh Reddy <reddyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> I think it is common style to add a change log between patch set versions in the patch description. Bernd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
