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

[NeilBrown]

On Fri, 13 Mar 2026, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Mar 2026 08:11:47 +1100
> NeilBrown <neilb at ownmail.net> wrote:
> 
> > *[PATCH 26/53] smb/client: don't unhashed and rehash to prevent new
> > *[PATCH 27/53] smb/client: use d_splice_alias() in atomic_open
> >  [PATCH 28/53] smb/client: Use d_alloc_noblock() in
> > *[PATCH 29/53] exfat: simplify exfat_lookup()
> > *[PATCH 30/53] configfs: remove d_add() calls before
> >  [PATCH 31/53] configfs: stop using d_add().
> > *[PATCH 32/53] ext4: move dcache modifying code out of __ext4_link()
> > *[PATCH 33/53] ext4: use on-stack dentries in
> 
> >  [PATCH 34/53] tracefs: stop using d_add().
> 
> Hmm, another reason I hate being Cc'd on every patch of a patch bomb where
> I only need to look at one (and maybe the first) patch.

I could try to refine my tooling, but you can't please all the people
all the time...  I wonder how many people would be bothered if only the
cover-letter was sent to everyone, and the patches only went to lkml -
to be fetched from lore if not subscribed.

You would probably need to look at 02/53

https://github.com/neilbrown/linux/commit/aebdc6545eb18e5b6a7d41320f30d752996b3c6c

to have the context to understand 34/53

> 
> For some reason, I'm missing several patches, and this is one of them :-p

They don't seem to have made it to lore.kernel.org either.  Maybe I'm
being rate-limited somewhere.

https://github.com/neilbrown/linux/commit/77074c04a94176d6b2b2caf44dd84f0788a420c4

Thanks,
NeilBrown

> 
> -- Steve
> 
> 
> >  [PATCH 35/53] cephfs: stop using d_add().
> > *[PATCH 36/53] cephfs: remove d_alloc from CEPH_MDS_OP_LOOKUPNAME
> >  [PATCH 37/53] cephfs: Use d_alloc_noblock() in
> >  [PATCH 38/53] cephfs: Don't d_drop() before d_splice_alias()
> >  [PATCH 39/53] ecryptfs: stop using d_add().
> >  [PATCH 40/53] gfs2: stop using d_add().
>