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 <mgor...@techsingularity.net>
---
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
