On Wed 02-11-22 13:08:08, Yang Shi wrote: [...] > So I think we narrowed down to two options: > 1. Preserve the interleave behavior but bail out if the target node is > not online (it is also racy, but doesn't hurt) I do not think there is merit in the interleave patch is dubious to say the least. > 2. Remove the node balance code entirely Yes, removing the balancing makes sense but I would still hope that we do not fail too easily if the range is populated on multiple nodes equally. In practice it will likely not matter much I guess but setting up all nodes with top score is just easy to achieve. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs