[PATCH RFC 00/53] lift lookup out of exclive lock for dir ops

[NeilBrown]

On Fri, 13 Mar 2026, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Mar 2026 at 14:44, NeilBrown <neilb at ownmail.net> wrote:
> >
> > This patch set progresses my effort to improve concurrency of
> > directory operations and specifically to allow concurrent updates
> > in a given directory.
> 
> I only got about half the patches, but the ones I did get didn't raise
> my hackles.
> 
> HOWEVER.
> 
> This is very much a "absolutely requires ACKs from Al" series. Al?

Yes, I'm looking forward to Al's thoughts

> 
> Also, because I only got about half the patches, and there's 53 of
> them total, I'd really like to see a git branch for something like
> this. It makes it easier to review for me, and I suspect it makes it
> easier for some of the test robots too.

github.com/neilbrown/linux.git branch pdirops

But if you have only time for one patch, 52/53 is the one to look at.

Thanks,
NeilBrown

> 
> But again - this needs Al to look at it. Iirc he had some fundamental
> concern with the last version - hopefully now fixed, but ...
> 
>                  Linus
> 
>