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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v1 2/3] Treewide: Stop corrupting socket's task_frag
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    On 21 Nov 2022, at 8:56, David Howells wrote:

    > Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@redhat.com> wrote:
    >
    >> Since moving to memalloc_nofs_save/restore, SUNRPC has stopped setting the
    >> GFP_NOIO flag on sk_allocation which the networking system uses to decide
    >> when it is safe to use current->task_frag.
    >
    > Um, what's task_frag?

    Its a per-task page_frag used to coalesce small writes for networking -- see:

    5640f7685831 net: use a per task frag allocator

    Ben

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