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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] hugetlb: add free page reporting support
To:     Liang Li <liliang324@gmail.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
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From:   David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
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Date:   Thu, 7 Jan 2021 09:53:43 +0100
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On 07.01.21 04:38, Liang Li wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 12:08 AM Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue 05-01-21 22:49:21, Liang Li wrote:
>>> hugetlb manages its page in hstate's free page list, not in buddy
>>> system, this patch try to make it works for hugetlbfs. It canbe
>>> used for memory overcommit in virtualization and hugetlb pre zero
>>> out.
>>
>> David has layed down some more fundamental questions in the reply to the
>> cover letter (btw. can you fix your scripts to send patches and make all
>> the patches to be in reply to the cover letter please?). But I would
> 
> Do you mean attach the patches in the email for the cover letter ?

You should be using "git format-patch --cover-letter . .." followed by
"git send-email ...", so the end result is a nicely structured thread.

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb