On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 10:51:44AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > Yeah, we do not allow to offline multi zone (node) ranges so the current > code seems to be over engineered. > > Anyway, I am wondering why do we have to strictly check for already > removed nodes links. Is the sysfs code going to complain we we try to > remove again? No, sysfs will silently "fail" if the symlink has already been removed. At least that is what I saw last time I played with it. I guess the question is what if sysfs handling changes in the future and starts dropping warnings when trying to remove a symlink is not there. Maybe that is unlikely to happen? -- Oscar Salvador SUSE L3