diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 3b25b69aa94f1d..65068671e460ac 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -3309,7 +3309,7 @@ static void __init gather_bootmem_prealloc(void)
 		.thread_fn	= gather_bootmem_prealloc_parallel,
 		.fn_arg		= NULL,
 		.start		= 0,
-		.size		= num_node_state(N_MEMORY),
+		.size		= nr_node_ids,
 		.align		= 1,
 		.min_chunk	= 1,
 		.max_threads	= num_node_state(N_MEMORY),