On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 08:22:09PM -0800, John Stultz wrote: > I'm wondering if given there are multiple call sites, that in > bio_alloc_bioset() would something like the following make more sense? > (apologies, copy pasted so this is whitespace corrupted) > thanks No. The fallback from the mempool backing to plain kmalloc is highly dangerous, which is one of the reasons it was removed. The other being that we don't want to disturb the fast path with this slow path.