On Fri 10-09-21 19:29:53, Feng Tang wrote: [...] > > Sorry I didn't really get to read this previously. The implementation > > works but I find it harder to read than really necessary. Why don't you > > use first_zones_zonelist here as well? > > The concern I had was which zonelist to use, local node or the first node > of nodemask's node_zonelists[ZONELIST_FALLBACK], I am not sure I see your concern. Either of the two should work just fine because all nodes should be reachable from the zonelist. But why don't you simply do the same kind of check as in the page allocator? -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs