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Re: [PATCH 2/11] FUSE - core
> I prefer the _NOFS regardless (and others will probably disagree) because
> it also means that if a machine is seriously running out of memory the fs
> will give up with -ENOMEM much more readily with _NOFS rather than
> increasing the memory pressure even further. As I said, others probably
> disagree with me...
Then you are suggesting to add __GFP_NORETRY, to all my allocations.
That's may well be a valid argument, if we want to treat userspace
filesystems less critical, than other things.
Adding _NOFS in the case where no deadlock is possible makes things
worse not better, since you are limiting the allocation from
performing I/O. It's clearly a losing situation.
Thanks,
Miklos
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