Re: [PATCH] vfs: move dentry shrinking outside the inode lock in 'rmdir()'

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 13 May 2024 at 09:33, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> try_to_shrink_children()?  Doable, and not even that hard to do, but
> as for shrinking async...  We can easily move it out of inode_lock
> on parent, but doing that really async would either need to be
> tied into e.g. remount r/o logics or we'd get userland regressions.

Let's aim to just get it out from under the inode lock first, and then
look at anything more exciting later, perhaps?

                   Linus