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

From: Ryan Roberts
Date: Mon Dec 11 2023 - 06:51:23 EST


On 07/12/2023 22:05, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Dec 2023 16:12:01 +0000 Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx> 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.