From 7e8af99cf504ca1dc389f282a0c94f4a911571be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 19:57:42 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] generic: reduce squashfs block size to 256KiB

In OpenWrt 19.07, the block size was increased to 1024KiB for "tiny"
devices by default to save flash. Unfortunately, this also significantly
increases the cache memory required by squashfs.

In my test, the increased block size reduced the image size by ~64KiB,
but increased the RAM usage by ~2.6MiB. As most tiny devices have only
32MiB of RAM, this is not a reasonable tradeoff.

The ar71xx-generic target already defines an even lower block size of
64KiB.
---
 targets/generic | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/targets/generic b/targets/generic
index 048fee90e..91ab783c6 100644
--- a/targets/generic
+++ b/targets/generic
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ config '# CONFIG_BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_PREFER_IPV4_ADDRESS is not set'
 
 config 'CONFIG_PACKAGE_ATH_DEBUG=y'
 
+try_config 'CONFIG_TARGET_SQUASHFS_BLOCK_SIZE=256'
+
 config '# CONFIG_KERNEL_IP_MROUTE is not set'
 config '# CONFIG_KERNEL_IPV6_MROUTE is not set'
 
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