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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 00/10] Multi-size THP for anonymous memory
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From:   Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
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On 07/12/2023 22:05, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu,  7 Dec 2023 16:12:01 +0000 Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.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.