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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. Changelog: v5: Fix the check when setting the passthrough file [Found when testing by Mike Shal] v3 and v4: Use the fs_stack_depth to prevent further stacking and a minor fix [Fix suggested by Jann Horn] v2: Changed the feature name to passthrough from stacked_io [Proposed by Linus Torvalds] Signed-off-by: Nikhilesh Reddy <reddyn@codeaurora.org> |
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| control.c | ||
| cuse.c | ||
| dev.c | ||
| dir.c | ||
| file.c | ||
| fuse_i.h | ||
| fuse_passthrough.h | ||
| inode.c | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| Makefile | ||
| passthrough.c | ||