Re: [PATCH v2] xfs: enable WQ_MEM_RECLAIM on m_sync_workqueue

Christoph Hellwig
2024-07-01T04:45:41Z

On Mon, Jul 01, 2024 at 09:46:36AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Oh, that's nasty.

Yes.

> We now have to change every path in every filesystem that NFS can
> call that might defer work to a workqueue.

Yes. That's why the kernel for a long time had the stance that using
network file systems / storage locally is entirely unsupported.

If we want to change that we'll have a lot of work to do.