Re: rename() contention (BUG?)

[Al Viro]

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.

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