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Date:   Fri, 18 Aug 2023 12:24:40 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] mm/filemap: remove hugetlb special casing in
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On Fri, 18 Aug 2023 11:54:24 -0700 Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com> wrote:

> yes, the motivation for this patch came from the discussion about the 
> various places in mm where hugetlb is special cased and how there should 
> be an effort to unify these cases. As Matthew mentions, this series gets 
> rid of branches that would occur on every page cache lookup. 

Thanks.  Could we please get all this spelled out in the changelog?

Probably in a few days, give people time to review the patch itself.