By the way, could you share some more details with us about the situation when you (or your customers) are actually hitting this case? How many clients, what kind of clients, etc. And what version of the server were you seeing the problem on? (I'm mainly curious whether de766e570413 and 44d8660d3bb0 were already applied.) I'm glad we're thinking about how to handle this case, but my feeling is that the server is probably just being *much* too conservative about these allocations, and the most important thing may be to fix that and make it a lot rarer that we hit this case in the first place. --b. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html