From: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Towards Unified and Extensible Memory Reclaim (reclaim_ext)
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 06:21:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <acUxJpJDzA7Bibob@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260325190547.abb7309fb63473b57b7a90a0@linux-foundation.org>
On Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 07:05:47PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:06:37 -0700 Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> wrote:
>
> > We should unify both algorithms into a single code path.
>
> I'm here to ask the questions which others fear will sound dumb.
>
> Is it indeed the plan to maintain both implementations?
I think in general the plan/wish was to have one implementation but the current
state shows that we are far from where we wish to be.
> I thought the
> long-term ambition was to knock MGLRU into shape and to drop the legacy LRU?
That might be the ambition but I don't think there was an agreement and there
weren't any efforts to do so. Traditional LRU has been battle tested for decades
and thus there were concerns/skepticisms about this ambition as well.
To me, the right way is to take step-by-step approach with clear evaluations and
comparison on unifying or selecting a component from one over the other.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-26 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-25 21:06 [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Towards Unified and Extensible Memory Reclaim (reclaim_ext) Shakeel Butt
2026-03-26 0:10 ` T.J. Mercier
2026-03-26 2:05 ` Andrew Morton
2026-03-26 7:03 ` Michal Hocko
2026-03-26 8:02 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
2026-03-26 12:37 ` Kairui Song
2026-03-26 13:13 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
2026-03-26 13:42 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-03-26 13:45 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
2026-03-26 16:02 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
2026-03-26 20:02 ` Axel Rasmussen
2026-03-26 20:30 ` Gregory Price
2026-03-26 20:47 ` Axel Rasmussen
2026-03-27 3:43 ` Matthew Wilcox
2026-03-27 19:12 ` Tal Zussman
2026-03-27 19:43 ` Gregory Price
2026-04-14 21:11 ` Tal Zussman
2026-04-09 0:21 ` John Hubbard
2026-04-09 8:22 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-04-14 21:38 ` Tal Zussman
2026-04-14 20:35 ` Tal Zussman
2026-03-27 8:07 ` [Lsf-pc] " Vlastimil Babka
2026-03-27 9:29 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
2026-03-26 12:06 ` Kairui Song
2026-03-26 12:31 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
2026-03-26 13:17 ` Kairui Song
2026-03-26 13:26 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
2026-03-26 13:21 ` Shakeel Butt [this message]
2026-03-26 7:12 ` Michal Hocko
2026-03-26 13:44 ` Shakeel Butt
2026-03-26 15:24 ` Michal Hocko
2026-03-26 18:21 ` Shakeel Butt
2026-03-26 7:18 ` wangzicheng
2026-03-26 11:43 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
2026-03-26 15:24 ` Gregory Price
2026-03-26 15:35 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
2026-03-26 16:32 ` Gregory Price
2026-03-26 16:40 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
2026-03-27 19:53 ` Johannes Weiner
2026-04-07 11:36 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-04-07 16:56 ` Gregory Price
2026-04-07 17:30 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-04-07 17:52 ` Johannes Weiner
2026-04-07 18:37 ` Gregory Price
2026-04-08 6:48 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-03-26 18:49 ` Shakeel Butt
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