On 01/21/2012 10:54 PM, wangdi wrote: > Single directory performance is a critical in some use cases. For > example the multiple application threads might create hundreds of > thousands of files in a single directory simultaneously within a short > window of time. > read NFSD here ;-) > Currently, both filename lookup and file system modifying operations > (such as create and unlink) are protected with a single lock for the > entire directory. It might be useful to remove this lock, so multiple > application threads can access the directory simultaneously. > I agree about create, unlink, and so on. But don't we have some lockless look up in place since a few Kernels ago? But yes the topic is very interesting, though I'd suspect its hard to implement. > Thanks > WangDi > Thanks Boaz -- 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
