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From: Rik van Riel To: Chris Li , Baoquan He Cc: Shakeel Butt , Nhat Pham , Kairui Song , Johannes Weiner , Michal Hocko , Roman Gushchin , Yosry Ahmed , David Hildenbrand , Muchun Song , Kemeng Shi , Barry Song , YoungJun Park , Chengming Zhou , "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" , "Liam R. 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I actually advise > against lump too many patches into one series. >=20 There are two things here. I totally agree that we can merge things piecemeal, and not aim for perfection at the start. However, I believe we do need to take care that whatever design we go with is actually able to support the end user functionality we want. We have to make sure that the path we pick does allow us to very easily add the user visible functionality that people need. We can always swap out technical details behind the scenes later, but user interfaces are supposed to be stable. --=20 All Rights Reversed.