Re: [RFC] parallel directory operations

[Nikita Danilov]

[e-mail] writes:
 > >>>>> Nikita Danilov (ND) writes:
 > 
 > 
 >  ND> By taking this approach one step further you may just add a semaphore
 >  ND> into struct dentry and take it instead of directory ->i_sem. I think
 >  ND> Alexander Viro tried something similar in the past, but it slowed down
 >  ND> common case when there is no concurrent access to the directory.
 > 
 > it's not semaphore. locks are created on demand to protect part of directory.
 > we can't have a lots of semaphores allocated statically for each part of
 > each directory.
 > 
 > BTW, all of this have to be enabled by 'pdirops' ext3's mount option. so, things
 > don't slow down w/o this option.

I am talking about "dynamic locks" taken in fs/namei.c. Have you
measured how your patch affects single-threaded case?

 > 

Nikita.