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 Received: from kanga.kvack.org (kanga.kvack.org [205.233.56.17]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C34FFC433F5 for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2022 12:53:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) id 5031C6B0071; Thu, 7 Apr 2022 08:52:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix, from userid 40) id 4E4B46B0073; Thu, 7 Apr 2022 08:52:58 -0400 (EDT) X-Delivered-To: int-list-linux-mm@kvack.org Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix, from userid 63042) id 3A1E76B0074; Thu, 7 Apr 2022 08:52:58 -0400 (EDT) X-Delivered-To: linux-mm@kvack.org Received: from relay.hostedemail.com (relay.hostedemail.com [64.99.140.27]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ACC06B0071 for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2022 08:52:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtpin12.hostedemail.com (a10.router.float.18 [10.200.18.1]) by unirelay12.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8D32122DCD for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2022 12:52:47 +0000 (UTC) X-FDA: 79330072374.12.961A166 Received: from ms.lwn.net (ms.lwn.net [45.79.88.28]) by imf15.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52F9DA000A for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2022 12:52:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (unknown [IPv6:2601:281:8300:35::e2d]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5390B30D; Thu, 7 Apr 2022 12:52:46 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 ms.lwn.net 5390B30D DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lwn.net; s=20201203; t=1649335966; bh=J6fsWhcIYdB09wzvgZi6AxYIXSAJzCGBEqivzfR46Ss=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:From; b=jFKLQQekMDOtJN8dSbnDT5H9DpIjIII0a4/YX7BVTC3rl1zbWzFfWP5DoYkuu+aah 89Aw6rqW2QCQ/lMvN07sgjpylKtwLogEsnD9MmwftsfJCN3zwbE7tGfrAmuqRjDAxx bsby11D9TfvO/ca6L7q/ixVgU8WODgk/5FSv97GwkQSRspBu3GQEz/4JfgSDn0qoOn R6qeOk4Wn3MMOtAZO0pbE2EDX3lnXZ4fpMNByp66gx4nHmFf5h0wC4C/5Ntczpb5hJ ZwaLdmte38V7t+sv+XIPJAX+eRpQj+cbdaStVYOyeDdlCRhmuISUmgPFGAe1+6hbu6 MAYN2RjDBgysw== From: Jonathan Corbet To: Bagas Sanjaya , Yu Zhao , Stephen Rothwell , linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , Aneesh Kumar , Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>, Catalin Marinas , Dave Hansen , Hillf Danton , Jens Axboe , Jesse Barnes , Johannes Weiner , Linus Torvalds , Matthew Wilcox , Mel Gorman , Michael Larabel , Michal Hocko , Mike Rapoport , Rik van Riel , Vlastimil Babka , Will Deacon , Ying Huang , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, page-reclaim@google.com, x86@kernel.org, Brian Geffon , Jan Alexander Steffens , Oleksandr Natalenko , Steven Barrett , Suleiman Souhlal , Daniel Byrne , Donald Carr , Holger =?utf-8?Q?Hoffst=C3=A4tte?= , Konstantin Kharlamov , Shuang Zhai , Sofia Trinh , Vaibhav Jain Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 14/14] mm: multi-gen LRU: design doc In-Reply-To: <5ea69d84-be0c-2e9b-02b5-92d9442c8aff@gmail.com> References: <20220407031525.2368067-1-yuzhao@google.com> <20220407031525.2368067-15-yuzhao@google.com> <5ea69d84-be0c-2e9b-02b5-92d9442c8aff@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2022 06:52:45 -0600 Message-ID: <87wng1838i.fsf@meer.lwn.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Stat-Signature: jpcttjqehofxqagizsxhno3bjsgpp5k5 Authentication-Results: imf15.hostedemail.com; dkim=pass header.d=lwn.net header.s=20201203 header.b=jFKLQQek; spf=pass (imf15.hostedemail.com: domain of corbet@lwn.net designates 45.79.88.28 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=corbet@lwn.net; dmarc=none X-Rspam-User: X-Rspamd-Server: rspam08 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 52F9DA000A X-HE-Tag: 1649335967-83284 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: Bagas Sanjaya writes: > On 07/04/22 10.15, Yu Zhao wrote: >> Add a design doc. >> > > Why is this design documentation added? ...because perhaps other developers might want to understand the design of this complex mechanism? Bagas, it is hard enough to get people to write useful documentation as it is. Could I ask you to please stop adding useless friction to the process? Thanks, jon