linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sparc64: Add 16GB hugepage support

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Message-ID: <4c4d4881-9634-9e62-243a-ed0c350b8a39@oracle.com>
Date:   Wed, 24 May 2017 21:08:40 -0700
From:   Nitin Gupta <nitin.m.gupta@...cle.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, paul.gortmaker@...driver.com
Cc:     mike.kravetz@...cle.com, kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com,
        tom.hromatka@...cle.com, mhocko@...e.com, mingo@...nel.org,
        babu.moger@...cle.com, bob.picco@...cle.com, thomas.tai@...cle.com,
        pasha.tatashin@...cle.com, atish.patra@...cle.com,
        sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sparc64: Add 16GB hugepage support

On 5/24/17 8:45 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
> Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 23:34:42 -0400
> 
>> [[PATCH] sparc64: Add 16GB hugepage support] On 24/05/2017 (Wed 17:29) Nitin Gupta wrote:
>>
>>> Orabug: 25362942
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <nitin.m.gupta@...cle.com>
>>
>> If this wasn't an accidental git send-email misfire, then there should
>> be a long log indicating the use case, the perforamnce increase, the
>> testing that was done, etc. etc. 
>>
>> Normally I'd not notice but since I was Cc'd I figured it was worth a
>> mention -- for example the vendor ID above doesn't mean a thing to
>> all the rest of us, hence why I suspect it was a git send-email misfire;
>> sadly, I think we've all accidentally done that at least once....
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> No commit message whatsoever is basically unacceptable for something
> like this.
>

Ok, I will include usage, testing notes, performance numbers etc., in
v2 patch. Still, I do try to include "Orabug" for better tracking of
bugs internally; I hope that's okay.

Thanks,
Nitin