On Wed, Jul 09, 2025 at 09:47:43PM -0400, Benjamin Coddington wrote: > If the NFS client is doing writeback from a workqueue context, avoid using > __GFP_NORETRY for allocations if the task has set PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO or > PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS. The combination of these flags makes memory allocation > failures much more likely. Can we take a step back and figre out why this blanket usage of __GFP_NORETRY exists at all?
