This moves locking to the inodes themselves which allows reducing lock times significantly. Main inodes (ext2 and tmpfs) still do contain a single big mutex that gets locked during operations but now we have the architecture to optimize these.
This moves locking to the inodes themselves which allows reducing lock times significantly. Main inodes (ext2 and tmpfs) still do contain a single big mutex that gets locked during operations but now we have the architecture to optimize these.