Re: [PATCH v3] fuse: back uncached readdir buffers with pages

From: Miklos Szeredi

Date: Tue May 19 2026 - 11:54:24 EST


On Tue, 19 May 2026 at 17:34, Matt Ochs <mochs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> With out_pages but without the byte-size cap, fuse_simple_request()
> still returned -ENOMEM. Capping the request to 1048576 bytes / 16 pages
> made the same test pass.

Can you tell why is it failing now?

> I can rework the commit message to make that distinction clear.

Please remove the request size cap from this patch. We need to
discuss fixing that properly: limiting by max_write, while might seem
to make the failure go away, is conceptually wrong.

Thanks,
Miklos