Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: reiserfs locking (v2) | | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | | Date | Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:38:33 +0200 |
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On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 16:34 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > vfs_readdir() locks the directory before calling the fs, and none > of the nested classes would be in its good right there, as the > directory is the current inode to work on, not a parent nor a > child or so.
Nah, what I was referring to is sticking the i_mutex into a different class on inode creation, but apparently we already do, see unlock_new_inode().
So its not a pure directory thing..
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