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charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 15.09.25 12:32, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 12:25:54PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote: >>>> >>>> I would just say "The kernel might decide to use a more conservative approach >>>> when collapsing smaller THPs" etc. >>>> >>>> >>>> Thoughts? >>> >>> Well I've sort of reviewed oppositely there :) well at least that it needs to be >>> a hell of a lot clearer (I find that comment really compressed and I just don't >>> really understand it). >> >> Right. I think these are just details we should hide from the user. And in >> particular, not over-document it so we can more easily change semantics >> later. > > And when we change semantics we can't change comments? > > I mean maybe we're talking across purposes here, I'm talking about code > comments, not the documentation. > > I agree the documentation should not mention any of this. Yes, I was talking about patch #15 ("It's just when it comes to documenting all that stuff in patch #15"). Comments we can adjust as we please of course :) -- Cheers David / dhildenb