diff --git a/net/sunrpc/sched.c b/net/sunrpc/sched.c
index 2168d4d..f215572 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/sched.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/sched.c
@@ -925,16 +925,13 @@ static void rpc_async_schedule(struct work_struct *work)
  * Most requests are 'small' (under 2KiB) and can be serviced from a
  * mempool, ensuring that NFS reads and writes can always proceed,
  * and that there is good locality of reference for these buffers.
- *
- * In order to avoid memory starvation triggering more writebacks of
- * NFS requests, we avoid using GFP_KERNEL.
  */
 int rpc_malloc(struct rpc_task *task)
 {
 	struct rpc_rqst *rqst = task->tk_rqstp;
 	size_t size = rqst->rq_callsize + rqst->rq_rcvsize;
 	struct rpc_buffer *buf;
-	gfp_t gfp = GFP_NOIO | __GFP_NOWARN;
+	gfp_t gfp = GFP_NOFS;
 
 	if (RPC_IS_SWAPPER(task))
 		gfp = __GFP_MEMALLOC | GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN;
@@ -1015,7 +1012,7 @@ static void rpc_init_task(struct rpc_task *task, const struct rpc_task_setup *ta
 static struct rpc_task *
 rpc_alloc_task(void)
 {
-	return (struct rpc_task *)mempool_alloc(rpc_task_mempool, GFP_NOIO);
+	return (struct rpc_task *)mempool_alloc(rpc_task_mempool, GFP_NOFS);
 }
 
 /*