linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH mm-unstable v14 00/16] khugepaged: mTHP support

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Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2026 14:35:08 -0700
From: Nico Pache <npache@...hat.com>
To: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH mm-unstable v14 00/16] khugepaged: mTHP support

On Mon, Jan 26, 2026 at 4:34 AM Lorenzo Stoakes
<lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 12:28:25PM -0700, Nico Pache wrote:
> > V14 Changes:
> > - Added review tags
> > - refactored is_mthp_order() to is_pmd_order(), utilized it in more places, and
> >   moved it to the first commit of the series
> > - squashed fixup sent with v13
> > - rebased and handled conflicts with new madvise_collapse writeback retry logic [3]
> > - handled conflict with khugepaged cleanup series [4]
>
> Hmm no mention of change to 3/16, unless it's folded into one of the above?

It's the line with [3], but yeah my bad, i'll try to be more detailed
with these change logs in the future. Was particularly lazy on this
one.

Thanks for the reviews :)

-- Nico

>
> Very important to make reviewers aware of this stuff.
>
> It's also worth separating out things at a fine-grained level, really
> everything. More detail is good. See [0] for example - I practice what I preach
> :)
>
> Thanks, Lorenzo
>
> [0]:https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/cover.1769198904.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com/
>