A check is made for an empty zonelist early in the page allocator fast path but it's unnecessary. The check after first_zones_zonelist call should catch that situation. Removing the first check is slower for machines with memoryless nodes but that is a corner case that can live with the overhead. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 8 -------- 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index df03ccc7f07c..e50e754ec9eb 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -3374,14 +3374,6 @@ __alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, if (should_fail_alloc_page(gfp_mask, order)) return NULL; - /* - * Check the zones suitable for the gfp_mask contain at least one - * valid zone. It's possible to have an empty zonelist as a result - * of __GFP_THISNODE and a memoryless node - */ - if (unlikely(!zonelist->_zonerefs->zone)) - return NULL; - if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CMA) && ac.migratetype == MIGRATE_MOVABLE) alloc_flags |= ALLOC_CMA; -- 2.6.4 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>