Re: [PATCH v6] mm/filemap: remove hugetlb special casing in filemap.c

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Aug 18 2023 - 15:25:55 EST


On Fri, 18 Aug 2023 11:54:24 -0700 Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.