Re: [PATCH 2/11] FUSE - core

[Miklos Szeredi]

> 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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