diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 623f6e5b583a..10708f37575d 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -4789,6 +4789,20 @@ restart:
 			    compact_result == COMPACT_DEFERRED)
 				goto nopage;
 
+			/*
+			 * THP page faults may attempt local node only first,
+			 * but are then allowed to only compact, not reclaim,
+			 * see alloc_pages_mpol().
+			 *
+			 * Compaction can fail for other reasons than those
+			 * checked above and we don't want such THP allocations
+			 * to put reclaim pressure on a single node in a
+			 * situation where other nodes might have plenty of
+			 * available memory.
+			 */
+			if (gfp_mask & __GFP_THISNODE)
+				goto nopage;
+
 			/*
 			 * Looks like reclaim/compaction is worth trying, but
 			 * sync compaction could be very expensive, so keep