diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 6a8593aef297..d932f406c0c1 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -5280,37 +5280,13 @@ static void setup_min_slab_ratio(void);
 
 static void build_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat)
 {
-	int node, local_node;
 	struct zoneref *zonerefs;
 	int nr_zones;
 
-	local_node = pgdat->node_id;
-
 	zonerefs = pgdat->node_zonelists[ZONELIST_FALLBACK]._zonerefs;
 	nr_zones = build_zonerefs_node(pgdat, zonerefs);
 	zonerefs += nr_zones;
 
-	/*
-	 * Now we build the zonelist so that it contains the zones
-	 * of all the other nodes.
-	 * We don't want to pressure a particular node, so when
-	 * building the zones for node N, we make sure that the
-	 * zones coming right after the local ones are those from
-	 * node N+1 (modulo N)
-	 */
-	for (node = local_node + 1; node < MAX_NUMNODES; node++) {
-		if (!node_online(node))
-			continue;
-		nr_zones = build_zonerefs_node(NODE_DATA(node), zonerefs);
-		zonerefs += nr_zones;
-	}
-	for (node = 0; node < local_node; node++) {
-		if (!node_online(node))
-			continue;
-		nr_zones = build_zonerefs_node(NODE_DATA(node), zonerefs);
-		zonerefs += nr_zones;
-	}
-
 	zonerefs->zone = NULL;
 	zonerefs->zone_idx = 0;
 }