On 5 Jun 2025, at 10:26, Chuck Lever wrote: > This doesn't apply to v6.16-rc1 due to recent changes to use a > dynamically-allocated rq_pages array. This array is allocated in > svc_init_buffer(); the array allocation has to remain. Well, shucks. I guess I should be paying better attention. Can we drop the bulk allocation in svc_init_buffer if we're just going to try it more robustly in svc_alloc_arg? Else we probably would need to grow the same retry machinery in svc_init_buffer since the bulk allocator expects it. Ben