On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 06:01:39PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > Attached patch is just a starting point (untested). Not sure how to minimize > contention without adding too much complexity. Contention isn't the worst problem here - I'd expect the cacheline ping-pong to hurt more... I agree with the analysis, but I'd really like to avoid that spinlock ;-/ Let me see if we can avoid that... Oh, well - at least that's a good excuse to take a break from fucking deadlock analysis around the damn acct(2), most of VFS and network filesystems ;-/ -- 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