From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Sourav Panda <souravpanda@google.com>,
muchun.song@linux.dev, osalvador@suse.de,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, liam@infradead.org, vbabka@kernel.org,
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mhklinux@outlook.com, fvdl@google.com, gthelen@google.com,
mike.kravetz@oracle.com, pasha.tatashin@soleen.com,
rientjes@google.com, riel@surriel.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] mm/hugetlb: Dynamic, NUMA-aware HugePage Cache & Free Page Reporting
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2026 21:46:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f9bad4b3-93ee-4daf-84d5-97f6ca305240@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260707152755-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org>
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.
--
Cheers,
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-07 19:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-07 6:42 [RFC PATCH 0/6] mm/hugetlb: Dynamic, NUMA-aware HugePage Cache & Free Page Reporting Sourav Panda
2026-07-07 6:42 ` [PATCH 1/6] mm/hugetlb: add Kconfig and basic cache infrastructure Sourav Panda
2026-07-07 6:42 ` [PATCH 2/6] mm/hugetlb: implement cache recycling and allocation Sourav Panda
2026-07-07 6:42 ` [PATCH 3/6] mm/hugetlb: add sysfs interfaces for cache Sourav Panda
2026-07-07 6:42 ` [PATCH 4/6] mm/hugetlb: add memory shrinker " Sourav Panda
2026-07-07 6:42 ` [PATCH 5/6] Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst: document cache interfaces Sourav Panda
2026-07-07 6:42 ` [PATCH 6/6] mm/hugetlb: support free page reporting for cached hugepages Sourav Panda
2026-07-07 7:18 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-07-07 10:18 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-07-07 6:56 ` [RFC PATCH 0/6] mm/hugetlb: Dynamic, NUMA-aware HugePage Cache & Free Page Reporting Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-07-07 7:21 ` Sourav Panda
2026-07-07 7:29 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-07 8:09 ` Muchun Song
2026-07-07 10:25 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-07-07 10:28 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-07 11:06 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-07-07 14:01 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-07-07 18:46 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-07-07 19:32 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-07-07 19:46 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
2026-07-08 8:26 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-07-08 9:16 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-07-09 6:15 ` Sourav Panda
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