Al Viro wrote:
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 08:43:34PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
The changes make the mutex more efficient, but won't decrease the
contention. It seems that all renames in one filesystem are serialized,
and if the renames require I/O (which is certainly the case with nfs),
rename throughput is severely limited.
They are, and for a good reason. For details see
Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking.
Is it possible to lock only the common subtree of the two paths?
Perhaps walk towards the root of the tree, starting with the deeper
path, locking one component at a time. Then walk both paths together
locking components ordered by something to avoid deadlock.
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