On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 03:06:52PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > It is possible that locking can be reduced if some things are verified > and carefully shown not to matter. I just don't see the need yet and it > would make things overly complicated I think. Introducing any more > complexity will sink this patchset. By overly complicated, I mean, for this patchset where locking is already been rewritten. It would then be no more complicated (actually far less) than equivalently trying to lift inode_lock from parts of the code where it is causing contention times. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html