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Howlett" , Nico Pache , Ryan Roberts , Dev Jain , Barry Song , Lance Yang , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org References: <20260826-drop-thp-maintainership-v1-1-3d102748fa17@kernel.org> <054cf257-f5d6-4041-8c83-902af87c736d@linux.dev> Content-Language: en-US From: Usama Arif In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Rspamd-Server: rspam11 X-Rspam-User: X-Stat-Signature: qn8xg1amwt7cnxi9cb37si8d3e7rnja6 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: EAAAD2000E X-HE-Tag: 1787843846-102759 X-HE-Meta: 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 yYuZVF/Z MaW1MvxEoWH7E4f3nQqYkJgOnIqdoxka0+k0H0n2MZVcye4uPZe4ht3FhACTYp18TSa4NfY232qDCC71k1CRGKZ7HgMPcYUXB+gPpYBQamk1cpgtpb0iJLFuZFRRaNXYIdupLMHJh3iXO6XX/IvTrzPeC0rHEEb4vu+z4eO5axhb8I6Lqnun9K61CbSYMR8eSJgIHjioCLhnwSTG60gIc3yh0O9SO91I8D83YHUc7kHSEHbxHHlaqeS5AlFgRs4/x1lwCtKHNOgXJNFMwZq3I9UFzu0YZ0/0CH0P/8/mX3oB2rugT5NCZ02F+rA== Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On 27/08/2026 15:25, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2026 at 03:15:47PM +0100, Usama Arif wrote: >> >> >> On 26/08/2026 12:31, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote: >>> Since it's 2026 :) I asked Claude to look at my time as THP co-maintainer: >>> >>> ~107,000 words of review across 948 emails (in 279 distinct >>> threads), counting only prose you actually wrote — quoted text, >>> signatures and attribution lines stripped. That's a full novel's >>> worth of review commentary. >>> >>> Along the way you handed out 194 Reviewed-by and 15 Acked-by tags, >>> and your longest single review was 2,404 words (mTHP collapse >>> support, v12 — the khugepaged/mTHP collapse saga accounts for most >>> of your top-10 longest reviews). >>> >>> Estimated review time: roughly 300–500 hours, centred around ~400 >>> (i.e. ~7 hours/week for 14 months). >>> >>> 1,615 THP-related emails in the window: 948 reviews of others' >>> work, 278 replies on your own THP-touching series threads (~31k >>> more words responding to review), 382 patch emails, and a handful >>> of MAINTAINERS bits. Busiest months: March 2026 (131 review >>> emails), June 2026 (113), August 2026 (111); quietest was December >>> 2025 (5). >>> >>> Think I can be happy with that! >>> >> Ah so sorry to see you step down, you made THP genuinely better! >> >> The numbers show the amount of effort you have put in, but they don't capture >> how consistently useful and detailed your reviews are, with the aim of >> always trying to make the patches and THP better! >> >> Thanks for being an awesome maintainer and hopefully you will consider >> coming back soon! > > Thanks Usama! :) I know we started off with some fireworks on review 😅 but > you've always been fantastic to work with and it's been great to see you > develop as a contributor. > > BTW, I did want to say but never got around to it - I love how you've > approached the PUD THP stuff - i.e. getting the huge swap stuff sorted > first, gradually building things up, etc.! > > You've always given interesting sessions + input at LSF and have had great > insights on how stuff interacts with the Meta fleet also! :) > > It was especially interesting to hear that 512 MiB huge pages have actually > resulted in far less memory usage than you might expect :) > > I will still be busy upstream with the 4 other maintainerships to keep me > busy, along with series both in kvmarm and core mm so don't worry I'm not > going anywhere :) > > And as I said to David and others, always feel free to cc- me or ping me > off-list etc. if I can be of use for THP stuff, even though I'm taking a > break from the maintainership side! > Thanks for the kind words! It has been awesome working with you and discussing different topics at conferences and the mailing list! I am sure we will continue to in the future! >> >> Thanks, >> Usama > > -- > Cheers, Lorenzo