Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] dcache: Translating dentry into pathname withouttaking rename_lock

[Al Viro]

On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 06:34:16PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Maybe it should then?
> 
> It doesn't need to. The RCU lookup looks at individual dentry sequence
> numbers and doesn't care about the bigger rename sequence number at
> all.

One name: Mark V. Shaney...
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