On Mon, 09 Jun 2025, Al Viro wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2025 at 09:09:37AM +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > > Proposed changes to directory-op locking will lock the dentry rather > > than the whole directory. So the dentry will need to be unlocked. > > Please, repost your current proposal _before_ that one goes anywhere. > I've posted my proposal for the new API. This makes the value of the vfs_mkdir() change clear (I hope). Would you also like me to post the patches which introduce the new locking scheme? Thanks, NeilBrown
