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 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF6C6C433E0 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 2021 08:55:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3DD92313B for ; Thu, 7 Jan 2021 08:55:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727265AbhAGIzW (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jan 2021 03:55:22 -0500 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com ([216.205.24.124]:24513 "EHLO us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726171AbhAGIzW (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jan 2021 03:55:22 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1610009635; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=VnMdV8KJMJ17J1dCjQPgPbu7cJhRA01SnsrY34SOH7c=; b=BYubCQ3yNvObpFrgUfnHZ0TpXNzujZ/mztG+x28ES5zKHm2rn9095EsY39XTxrhyomLLvP axz9AgQ+PKpcarzWHll++t0wC2IAxFTIFAKwxjZja6LXljid4QatOzydoWvTTuBC5Pl4W5 d0+GEDa4KcL5OXQi/nAlxew220kXrYw= Received: from mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (mimecast-mx01.redhat.com [209.132.183.4]) (Using TLS) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP id us-mta-585-clAEW5aGPXGlyysB1gR9YA-1; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 03:53:53 -0500 X-MC-Unique: clAEW5aGPXGlyysB1gR9YA-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx06.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B4F1B801817; Thu, 7 Jan 2021 08:53:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.36.114.161] (ovpn-114-161.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.114.161]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DE7D5C8AA; Thu, 7 Jan 2021 08:53:44 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] hugetlb: add free page reporting support To: Liang Li , Michal Hocko Cc: Alexander Duyck , Mel Gorman , Andrew Morton , Andrea Arcangeli , Dan Williams , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Jason Wang , Dave Hansen , Liang Li , Mike Kravetz , linux-mm , LKML , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org References: <20210106034918.GA1154@open-light-1.localdomain> <20210106160827.GO13207@dhcp22.suse.cz> From: David Hildenbrand Organization: Red Hat GmbH Message-ID: Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2021 09:53:43 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.16 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07.01.21 04:38, Liang Li wrote: > On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 12:08 AM Michal Hocko wrote: >> >> On Tue 05-01-21 22:49:21, Liang Li wrote: >>> hugetlb manages its page in hstate's free page list, not in buddy >>> system, this patch try to make it works for hugetlbfs. It canbe >>> used for memory overcommit in virtualization and hugetlb pre zero >>> out. >> >> David has layed down some more fundamental questions in the reply to the >> cover letter (btw. can you fix your scripts to send patches and make all >> the patches to be in reply to the cover letter please?). But I would > > Do you mean attach the patches in the email for the cover letter ? You should be using "git format-patch --cover-letter . .." followed by "git send-email ...", so the end result is a nicely structured thread. -- Thanks, David / dhildenb