[PATCH v5 02/36] mm/page_alloc: refactor build_node_zonelist() out of build_zonelists()

From: Gregory Price

Date: Mon Jul 20 2026 - 15:39:23 EST


Extract per-node fallback-list construction into build_node_zonelist().

This lets use build zonelists from candidate nodemasks instead of just
the default N_MEMORY node state list.

No functional change: build_zonelists() builds the same FALLBACK list over
N_MEMORY with node_load updates as before.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Price <gourry@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index acf096f525f49..4c1ef84c02a3d 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -5813,12 +5813,12 @@ int find_next_best_node_in(int node, nodemask_t *used_node_mask,
* DMA zone, if any--but risks exhausting DMA zone.
*/
static void build_zonelists_in_node_order(pg_data_t *pgdat, int *node_order,
- unsigned nr_nodes)
+ unsigned int nr_nodes, int zlidx)
{
struct zoneref *zonerefs;
int i;

- zonerefs = pgdat->node_zonelists[ZONELIST_FALLBACK]._zonerefs;
+ zonerefs = pgdat->node_zonelists[zlidx]._zonerefs;

for (i = 0; i < nr_nodes; i++) {
int nr_zones;
@@ -5847,26 +5847,28 @@ static void build_thisnode_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat)
zonerefs->zone_idx = 0;
}

-static void build_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat)
+/*
+ * Build one node-ordered fallback list from a candidate nodemask.
+ * update_load round-robins node_load across equidistant nodes.
+ */
+static void build_node_zonelist(pg_data_t *pgdat, const nodemask_t *candidates,
+ int zlidx, bool update_load,
+ int *node_order, int *nr)
{
- static int node_order[MAX_NUMNODES];
- int node, nr_nodes = 0;
nodemask_t used_mask = NODE_MASK_NONE;
- int local_node, prev_node;
-
- /* NUMA-aware ordering of nodes */
- local_node = pgdat->node_id;
- prev_node = local_node;
+ int local_node = pgdat->node_id;
+ int prev_node = local_node;
+ int node, nr_nodes = 0;

- memset(node_order, 0, sizeof(node_order));
while ((node = find_next_best_node_in(local_node, &used_mask,
- &node_states[N_MEMORY])) >= 0) {
+ candidates)) >= 0) {
/*
* We don't want to pressure a particular node.
* So adding penalty to the first node in same
* distance group to make it round-robin.
*/
- if (node_distance(local_node, node) !=
+ if (update_load &&
+ node_distance(local_node, node) !=
node_distance(local_node, prev_node))
node_load[node] += 1;

@@ -5874,8 +5876,22 @@ static void build_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat)
prev_node = node;
}

- build_zonelists_in_node_order(pgdat, node_order, nr_nodes);
+ build_zonelists_in_node_order(pgdat, node_order, nr_nodes, zlidx);
+ *nr = nr_nodes;
+}
+
+static void build_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat)
+{
+ static int node_order[MAX_NUMNODES];
+ int local_node = pgdat->node_id;
+ int node, nr_nodes = 0;
+
+ memset(node_order, 0, sizeof(node_order));
+
+ build_node_zonelist(pgdat, &node_states[N_MEMORY], ZONELIST_FALLBACK,
+ true, node_order, &nr_nodes);
build_thisnode_zonelists(pgdat);
+
pr_info("Fallback order for Node %d: ", local_node);
for (node = 0; node < nr_nodes; node++)
pr_cont("%d ", node_order[node]);
--
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