Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: remove myself as THP co-maintainer

["Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>]

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,
> Usama

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Cheers, Lorenzo