Re: [PATCH 3/3] ovl: redirect on rename-dir

[Konstantin Khlebnikov]

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I've stumbled on somehow related problem - concurrent copy-ups are
>> strictly serialized by rename locks.
>> Obviously, file copying could be done in parallel: locks are required
>> only for final rename.
>> Because of that overlay slower that aufs for some workloads.
>
> Easy to fix: for each copy up create a separate subdir of "work".
> Then the contention is only for the time of creating the subdir, which
> is very short.

Yeah, but lock_rename() also takes per-sb s_vfs_rename_mutex (kludge by Al Viro)
I think proper synchronization for concurrent copy-up (for example
round flag on ovl_entry) and  locking rename only for rename could be
better.