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From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 06:11:41AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
> I did consider that, but we do allocations almost everywhere and

Do we?  All the code I've touched for nowait goes to great length
to avoid blocking allocations.