Re: reiserfs locking (v2)

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 16:34 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> vfs_readdir() locks the directory before calling the fs, and none
> of the nested classes would be in its good right there, as the
> directory is the current inode to work on, not a parent nor a
> child or so. 

Nah, what I was referring to is sticking the i_mutex into a different
class on inode creation, but apparently we already do, see
unlock_new_inode().

So its not a pure directory thing.. 
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