From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 52D131BC58; Wed, 17 Sep 2025 02:16:46 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1758075407; cv=none; b=r+64dN4NcRFD+v4J11Xs8ManyHOONGTYqseK9lNSXatwuZcd7bRUzD+3DFCeBAU+OAZMU6/P4NCsiGAawrdhiE5jIHTQvf/2vwGRfZGPBsHgYfQT5s41qvCa6AYms9yFQP/8GbuPl9dICl8HZdOtFvgqcbGXAd23ujK8eVinVQ8= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1758075407; c=relaxed/simple; bh=Y7E9FgWFmiluyPV1OTAKxPaUN0ogdOZyX5+tdyu3XVE=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-Id:In-Reply-To:References: Mime-Version:Content-Type; b=Q/vkwECJXugbp/pZmCk+tTj91vG+A7cj9WSryLsJxNx05QBdrRJ0HxrcRPsQd9r99B43fbZL6OJeMkMULo/JYq7Gaz/jsTgLeeKn34JqE38tCVF0O09Ee+Ni8ZoBIzarmoPK+wUMg+PTBprrWmce8hUnGe32nCAblruinuBJBUw= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linux-foundation.org header.i=@linux-foundation.org header.b=u5BIwCmk; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linux-foundation.org header.i=@linux-foundation.org header.b="u5BIwCmk" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B84ACC4CEFB; Wed, 17 Sep 2025 02:16:45 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linux-foundation.org; s=korg; t=1758075406; bh=Y7E9FgWFmiluyPV1OTAKxPaUN0ogdOZyX5+tdyu3XVE=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=u5BIwCmk8zcWTJgkEDHluvpFKUJ+aQvEoMt5i7SU0M0JsqTjpt2DrYWLAnJKdQH6Z 7dP4yqdgfiai+hLAEJW9o2X9KCuqnM3sRjwqylWH6wHaT1WnL3QPARHGYvjYGMeV2H 7yZBaedhoZWKOqr6xIHnVhSligT+feIMD27ILX+s= Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 19:16:45 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Kalesh Singh , minchan@kernel.org, david@redhat.com, Liam.Howlett@oracle.com, rppt@kernel.org, pfalcato@suse.de, kernel-team@android.com, android-mm@google.com, Alexander Viro , Christian Brauner , Jan Kara , Kees Cook , Vlastimil Babka , Suren Baghdasaryan , Michal Hocko , Steven Rostedt , Masami Hiramatsu , Mathieu Desnoyers , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Juri Lelli , Vincent Guittot , Dietmar Eggemann , Ben Segall , Mel Gorman , Valentin Schneider , Jann Horn , Shuah Khan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] vma count: fixes, test and improvements Message-Id: <20250916191645.15aae276992acafe7f7e723e@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20250915163838.631445-1-kaleshsingh@google.com> <20250915153401.61cbd5120871ee7a4e5b9cae@linux-foundation.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.8.0beta1 (GTK+ 2.24.33; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:12:03 +0100 Lorenzo Stoakes wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 03:34:01PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Anyhow, this -rc cycle has been quite the firehose in MM and I'm > > feeling a need to slow things down for additional stabilization and so > > people hopefully get additional bandwidth to digest the material we've > > added this far. So I think I'll just cherrypick [1/7] for now. A > > great flood of positive review activity would probably make me revisit > > that ;) > > > > Kalesh - I do intend to look at this series when I have a chance. My review > workload has been insane so it's hard to keep up at the moment. > > Andrew - This cycle has been crazy, speaking from point of view of somebody > doing a lot of review, it's been very very exhausting from this side too, > and this kind of work can feel a little... thankless... sometimes :) I hear you. I'm shedding most everything now, to give us a couple of weeks to digest. > I feel like we maybe need a way to ask people to slow down, sometimes at > least. Yup, I'm sending submitters private emails explaining the situation. Maybe they should be public emails, I find it a hard call. > Perhaps being less accepting of patches during merge window is one aspect, > as the merge window leading up to this cycle was almost the same review > load as when the cycle started. I'm having trouble understanding what you said here? > Anyway, TL;DR: I think we need to be mindful of reviewer sanity as a factor > in all this too :) > > (I am spekaing at Kernel Recipes then going on a very-badly-needed 2.5 week > vacataion afterwards over the merge window so I hope to stave off burnout > that way. Be good if I could keep mails upon return to 3 digits, but I have > my doubts :P) I'd blow that in three days ;)