Am 21.01.2016 um 13:38 schrieb Bernd Schubert: > 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. And please slow down a bit. Collect a few review comments and then do another version of your patch. :-) Thanks, //richard -- 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
