Hi, the article explains a lot: https://lwn.net/Articles/685108/ But readdirs are still serialized, in contrary of what Linus Torvalds writes in this message, It's only about lookups in parallel, where the case of two different lookups of the same name in parent is taken care of. Stef -- 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