From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com ([170.10.129.124]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.96 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1qLNwC-0043pS-2I for linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2023 13:07:28 +0000 Received: by mail-wr1-f72.google.com with SMTP id ffacd0b85a97d-30793c16c78so2831136f8f.3 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2023 06:06:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <82c934af-a777-3437-8d87-ff453ad94bfd@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2023 15:06:46 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] mm: FLEXIBLE_THP for improved performance References: <20230714160407.4142030-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com> <20230714161733.4144503-3-ryan.roberts@arm.com> From: David Hildenbrand In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+lwn-linux-arm-kernel=archive.lwn.net@lists.infradead.org List-Archive: To: Yu Zhao , Ryan Roberts Cc: Andrew Morton , Matthew Wilcox , "Kirill A. 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