Re: [PATCH, RFC] block: set noio context in submit_bio_noacct_nocheck

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 08:40:28AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 1/24/24 2:39 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Make sure all in-line block layer submission runs in noio reclaim
> > context.  This is a big step towards allowing GFP_NOIO, the other
> > one would be to have noio (and nofs for that matter) workqueues for
> > kblockd and driver internal workqueues.
> 
> I really don't like adding this for no good reason. Who's doing non NOIO
> allocations down from this path?

If there is a non-NOIO allocation right now that would be a bug,
although I would not be surprised if we had a few of them.

The reason to add this is a different one:  The MM folks want to
get rid of GFP_NOIO and GFP_NOFS and replace them by these context.

And doing this in the submission path and kblockd will cover almost
all of the noio context, with the rest probably covered by other
workqueues.  And this feels a lot less error prone than requiring
every driver to annotate the context in their submission routines.