Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/percpu: Preserve NOFS/NOIO scope during chunk create and populate

From: Michal Hocko

Date: Mon Jun 01 2026 - 11:58:03 EST


On Mon 01-06-26 10:27:53, Kaitao Cheng wrote:
> However, if we revert 9a5b183941b, it seems that all of these issues would
> be resolved. The only downside is that the failure rate of pcpu_alloc_noprof()
> allocations may increase, which might be acceptable.

That has practical impact on some versions of iscsid which do not have
PR_SET_IO_FLUSHER. And maybe some more so I would rather not revert
based on a theoretical concerns which I believe is the case here.

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs