Just FYI: I've merged two preparatory patches in my tree for the whole lockref thing. Instead of applying your four patches as-is during the merge window, I ended up writing two patches that introduce the concept and use it in the dentry code *without* introducing any of the new semantics yet. Waiman, I attributed the patches to you, even if they don't actually look much like any of the patches you sent out. And because I was trying very hard to make sure that no actual semantics changed, my version doesn't have the dget_parent() lockless update code, for example. I literally just did a search-and-replace of "->d_count" with "->d_lockref.count" and then I fixed up a few things by hand (undid one replacement in a comment, and used the helper functions where they were semantically identical). You don't have to rewrite your patches if you don't want to, I'm planning on cherry-picking the actual code changes during the merge window. Linus -- 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