On Fri, Jan 05, 2024 at 03:17:19PM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote: > On Fri, Jan 05, 2024 at 06:53:05PM +0800, Hou Tao wrote: > > From: Hou Tao <hout...@huawei.com> > > > > When invoking virtio_fs_enqueue_req() through kworker, both the > > allocation of the sg array and the bounce buffer still use GFP_ATOMIC. > > Considering the size of both the sg array and the bounce buffer may be > > greater than PAGE_SIZE, use GFP_NOFS instead of GFP_ATOMIC to lower the > > possibility of memory allocation failure. > > > > What's the practical benefit of this patch. Looks like if memory > allocation fails, we keep retrying at interval of 1ms and don't > return error to user space.
You don't deplete the atomic reserves unnecessarily?
