linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 00/10] Multi-size THP for anonymous memory

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Date:   Mon, 11 Dec 2023 11:51:12 +0000
From:   Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@...el.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>,
        Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>,
        "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>, Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>,
        Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        Itaru Kitayama <itaru.kitayama@...il.com>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>,
        Barry Song <21cnbao@...il.com>,
        Alistair Popple <apopple@...dia.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 00/10] Multi-size THP for anonymous memory

On 07/12/2023 22:05, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu,  7 Dec 2023 16:12:01 +0000 Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>>
>> This is v9 (and hopefully the last) of a series to implement multi-size THP
>> (mTHP) for anonymous memory (previously called "small-sized THP" and "large
>> anonymous folios").
> 
> A general point on the [0/N] intro.  Bear in mind that this is
> (intended to be) for ever.  Five years hence, people won't be
> interested in knowing which version the patchset was, in seeing what
> changed from the previous iteration, etc.  This is all important and
> useful info, of course.  But it's best suited for being below the
> "^---$" separator.
> 
> Also, those five-years-from-now people won't want to have to go click
> on some link to find the performance testing results and suchlike. 
> It's better to paste such important info right into their faces.

Sorry about this, Andrew - you've given me feedback on this before, and I've
been trying to improve this. I'm obviously not there yet. Will fix for next time.