Re: [PATCH] fs: Work around NFS wreckage

From: J. R. Okajima
Date: Thu Jan 13 2011 - 09:11:54 EST



Thomas Gleixner:
> The dcache scalability work broke NFS root filesystems.
:::
> Check for parent equal dentry and skip the nested lock to avoid the
> deadlock. I'm sure this is the wrong fix, but at least it "works" :)

With this patch, can you unmount it cleanly?
It skips incrementing d_count for both dentries.
Do we need at least one?


J. R. Okajima
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