kernel: remove full cache flush in fuse_copy_do() for MIPS
authorHauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Sat, 2 Apr 2016 12:36:10 +0000 (14:36 +0200)
committerHauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Sun, 26 Jun 2016 16:22:23 +0000 (18:22 +0200)
commitbf32177a1df123aa9b33c105d8895c81be81167a
tree9e9bfd212c7bdd6205697dcb8254a928a2000d5c
parent2abb02419d3c79d3ee8e732bccfd96a7fc959347
kernel: remove full cache flush in fuse_copy_do() for MIPS

This patch was introduced in commit r16412 for the brcm47xx target only
and then moved to generic in commit r32395. It was initially added
because of ticket #5186 and should fix some problems with fuse file
systems and MIPS caches. The commit comment in r32395 says that this a
generic problem in MIPS CPUs, but does not name any specifics about
that. There was a fix added to kernel 2.6.21 in commit commit
7575a49f20 "[MIPS] Implement flush_anon_page()." that should fix this
problem, but that was already available before both commits were done
to OpenWrt.

I just tested fuse with ntfs.3g without this patch on a BCM4704
(BMIPS3300 V0.6) SoC and haven't seen any problems. Someone reported
that removing this patch improves some fuse operations by 5 times on
some modern MIPS cores.
My test was only a simple "dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/zero bs=5000" to an
USB stick.

This patch removes the patch to OpenWrt, because I assume that it is
not needed any more and Felix, the orginal author, also thinks so.

Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
target/linux/generic/patches-3.18/309-mips_fuse_workaround.patch [deleted file]
target/linux/generic/patches-4.1/309-mips_fuse_workaround.patch [deleted file]
target/linux/generic/patches-4.4/309-mips_fuse_workaround.patch [deleted file]
target/linux/lantiq/patches-4.4/0004-MIPS-lantiq-add-atm-hack.patch