On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 3:20 PM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We should've done that call right *after* successful ->rmdir(). That
> reduces contention caused by tree-walking in shrink_dcache_parent()
> and, especially, contention caused by evictions in two nested subtrees
> going on in parallel. The same goes for directory-overwriting rename() -
> the story there had been parallel to that of rmdir().
Looks eminently sane to me.
Linus
