Re: [PATCH] sparc64: Add 16GB hugepage support

From: David Miller
Date: Wed May 24 2017 - 23:45:18 EST


From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 23:34:42 -0400

> [[PATCH] sparc64: Add 16GB hugepage support] On 24/05/2017 (Wed 17:29) Nitin Gupta wrote:
>
>> Orabug: 25362942
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <nitin.m.gupta@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> If this wasn't an accidental git send-email misfire, then there should
> be a long log indicating the use case, the perforamnce increase, the
> testing that was done, etc. etc.
>
> Normally I'd not notice but since I was Cc'd I figured it was worth a
> mention -- for example the vendor ID above doesn't mean a thing to
> all the rest of us, hence why I suspect it was a git send-email misfire;
> sadly, I think we've all accidentally done that at least once....

Agreed.

No commit message whatsoever is basically unacceptable for something
like this.