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List:       linux-fsdevel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] vfs: move dentry shrinking outside the inode lock in 'rmdir()'
From:       Linus Torvalds <torvalds () linux-foundation ! org>
Date:       2024-05-13 16:44:57
Message-ID: CAHk-=wjEMf8Du4UFzxuToGDnF3yLaMcrYeyNAaH1NJWa6fwcNQ () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Mon, 13 May 2024 at 09:33, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> try_to_shrink_children()?  Doable, and not even that hard to do, but
> as for shrinking async...  We can easily move it out of inode_lock
> on parent, but doing that really async would either need to be
> tied into e.g. remount r/o logics or we'd get userland regressions.

Let's aim to just get it out from under the inode lock first, and then
look at anything more exciting later, perhaps?

                   Linus

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