Re: [PATCH] Documentation: update path-lookup.md for parallel lookups

2018-11-20 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 11:55:46 +1100 NeilBrown wrote: > Since this document was written, i_mutex has been replace with > i_rwsem, and shared locks are utilized to allow lookups in the one > directory to happen in parallel. > > So replace i_mutex with i_rwsem, and explain how this is used for > par

[PATCH] Documentation: update path-lookup.md for parallel lookups

2018-11-18 Thread NeilBrown
Since this document was written, i_mutex has been replace with i_rwsem, and shared locks are utilized to allow lookups in the one directory to happen in parallel. So replace i_mutex with i_rwsem, and explain how this is used for parallel lookups. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown --- Just FYI $ git gr