diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
index 51bd1e72a917..4423a0f8eabe 100644
--- a/include/linux/gfp.h
+++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
@@ -117,16 +117,6 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
 			 __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN | \
 			 __GFP_NO_KSWAPD)
 
-/*
- * GFP_THISNODE does not perform any reclaim, you most likely want to
- * use __GFP_THISNODE to allocate from a given node without fallback!
- */
-#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
-#define GFP_THISNODE	(__GFP_THISNODE | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY)
-#else
-#define GFP_THISNODE	((__force gfp_t)0)
-#endif
-
 /* This mask makes up all the page movable related flags */
 #define GFP_MOVABLE_MASK (__GFP_RECLAIMABLE|__GFP_MOVABLE)
 
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 84466a4b1b36..86af1a96a6dc 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2412,13 +2412,7 @@ __alloc_pages_may_oom(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
 			*did_some_progress = 1;
 			goto out;
 		}
-		/*
-		 * GFP_THISNODE contains __GFP_NORETRY and we never hit this.
-		 * Sanity check for bare calls of __GFP_THISNODE, not real OOM.
-		 * The caller should handle page allocation failure by itself if
-		 * it specifies __GFP_THISNODE.
-		 * Note: Hugepage uses it but will hit PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER.
-		 */
+		/* The OOM killer may not free memory on a specific node */
 		if (gfp_mask & __GFP_THISNODE)
 			goto out;
 	}
@@ -2673,15 +2667,11 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
 	}
 
 	/*
-	 * GFP_THISNODE (meaning __GFP_THISNODE, __GFP_NORETRY and
-	 * __GFP_NOWARN set) should not cause reclaim since the subsystem
-	 * (f.e. slab) using GFP_THISNODE may choose to trigger reclaim
-	 * using a larger set of nodes after it has established that the
-	 * allowed per node queues are empty and that nodes are
-	 * over allocated.
+	 * If this allocation cannot block and it is for a specific node, then
+	 * fail early.  There's no need to wakeup kswapd or retry for a
+	 * speculative node-specific allocation.
 	 */
-	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NUMA) &&
-	    (gfp_mask & GFP_THISNODE) == GFP_THISNODE)
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NUMA) && (gfp_mask & __GFP_THISNODE) && !wait)
 		goto nopage;
 
 retry:
@@ -2874,7 +2864,7 @@ __alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
 	/*
 	 * 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
+	 * of __GFP_THISNODE and a memoryless node
 	 */
 	if (unlikely(!zonelist->_zonerefs->zone))
 		return NULL;
diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index c4b89eaf4c96..7eb38dd1cefa 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -857,6 +857,11 @@ static inline void *____cache_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
 	return NULL;
 }
 
+static inline gfp_t gfp_exact_node(gfp_t flags)
+{
+	return flags;
+}
+
 #else	/* CONFIG_NUMA */
 
 static void *____cache_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *, gfp_t, int);
@@ -1023,6 +1028,15 @@ static inline int cache_free_alien(struct kmem_cache *cachep, void *objp)
 
 	return __cache_free_alien(cachep, objp, node, page_node);
 }
+
+/*
+ * Construct gfp mask to allocate from a specific node but do not invoke reclaim
+ * or warn about failures.
+ */
+static inline gfp_t gfp_exact_node(gfp_t flags)
+{
+	return (flags | __GFP_THISNODE | __GFP_NOWARN) & ~__GFP_WAIT;
+}
 #endif
 
 /*
@@ -2825,7 +2839,7 @@ static void *cache_alloc_refill(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags,
 	if (unlikely(!ac->avail)) {
 		int x;
 force_grow:
-		x = cache_grow(cachep, flags | GFP_THISNODE, node, NULL);
+		x = cache_grow(cachep, gfp_exact_node(flags), node, NULL);
 
 		/* cache_grow can reenable interrupts, then ac could change. */
 		ac = cpu_cache_get(cachep);
@@ -3019,7 +3033,7 @@ static void *fallback_alloc(struct kmem_cache *cache, gfp_t flags)
 			get_node(cache, nid) &&
 			get_node(cache, nid)->free_objects) {
 				obj = ____cache_alloc_node(cache,
-					flags | GFP_THISNODE, nid);
+					gfp_exact_node(flags), nid);
 				if (obj)
 					break;
 		}
@@ -3047,7 +3061,7 @@ static void *fallback_alloc(struct kmem_cache *cache, gfp_t flags)
 			nid = page_to_nid(page);
 			if (cache_grow(cache, flags, nid, page)) {
 				obj = ____cache_alloc_node(cache,
-					flags | GFP_THISNODE, nid);
+					gfp_exact_node(flags), nid);
 				if (!obj)
 					/*
 					 * Another processor may allocate the
@@ -3118,7 +3132,7 @@ static void *____cache_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags,
 
 must_grow:
 	spin_unlock(&n->list_lock);
-	x = cache_grow(cachep, flags | GFP_THISNODE, nodeid, NULL);
+	x = cache_grow(cachep, gfp_exact_node(flags), nodeid, NULL);
 	if (x)
 		goto retry;
 
diff --git a/net/openvswitch/flow.c b/net/openvswitch/flow.c
index 50ec42f170a0..2dacc7b5af23 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/flow.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/flow.c
@@ -100,7 +100,9 @@ void ovs_flow_stats_update(struct sw_flow *flow, __be16 tcp_flags,
 
 				new_stats =
 					kmem_cache_alloc_node(flow_stats_cache,
-							      GFP_THISNODE |
+							      GFP_NOWAIT |
+							      __GFP_THISNODE |
+							      __GFP_NOWARN |
 							      __GFP_NOMEMALLOC,
 							      node);
 				if (likely(new_stats)) {