Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:22:20 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: rename() contention (BUG?) |
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On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 08:43:34PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > The changes make the mutex more efficient, but won't decrease the > contention. It seems that all renames in one filesystem are serialized, > and if the renames require I/O (which is certainly the case with nfs), > rename throughput is severely limited.
They are, and for a good reason. For details see Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking.
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