Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754706Ab0FXJuU (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:50:20 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:51160 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754375Ab0FXJuS (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:50:18 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: npiggin@suse.de Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, John Stultz , Frank Mayhar Subject: Re: [patch 14/52] fs: dcache scale subdirs References: <20100624030212.676457061@suse.de> <20100624030727.818410048@suse.de> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:50:17 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20100624030727.818410048@suse.de> (npiggin@suse.de's message of "Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:02:26 +1000") Message-ID: <87pqzgaheu.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 558 Lines: 17 npiggin@suse.de writes: > Protect d_subdirs and d_child with d_lock, except in filesystems that aren't > using dcache_lock for these anyway (eg. using i_mutex). Different locking for different file systems seems a bit confusing. Could the be unified? -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/