From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [patch 14/52] fs: dcache scale subdirs Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:50:17 +0200 Message-ID: <87pqzgaheu.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> References: <20100624030212.676457061@suse.de> <20100624030727.818410048@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, John Stultz , Frank Mayhar To: npiggin@suse.de Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100624030727.818410048@suse.de> (npiggin@suse.de's message of "Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:02:26 +1000") Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org 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.