Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] mm/hugetlb: Dynamic, NUMA-aware HugePage Cache & Free Page Reporting

[Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Jul 07, 2026 at 09:46:14PM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> On 7/7/26 21:32, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 07, 2026 at 07:46:28PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jul 07, 2026 at 10:01:55AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Fair enough.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Lorenzo, do you know *how* you want it reworked? Could you write it up
> >>> at a high level?
> >>> Because if not, it's not really practical to make it the asking price.
> >>
> >> Michael, you're an experienced maintainer, I'm surprised I have to tell you that
> >> the burden for that lands on the submitter.
> >
> > Oh sure, "fix bugs A,B,C before you add to this mess" is a classic way
> > to actually not end up with even more of a mess.  But I usually do try
> > to be explicit of what are specific issues I want submitter to address.
> > I don't really feel figuring that out lands on the submitter.
>
> Sometimes it's certainly easier. With things like hugetlb there often just isn't
> a feasible way to integrate it nicely into core-mm. It's just too special.

Yeah exactly :) once you reach a certain level of 'specialness' it is more like
pointing at a flaming trash pile and crying ;)

>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> David

Cheers, Lorenzo