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

[Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>]

On 27/08/2026 15:25, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> 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 for the kind words! It has been awesome working with you and discussing
different topics at conferences and the mailing list! I am sure we will continue to
in the future!

>>
>> Thanks,
>> Usama
> 
> --
> Cheers, Lorenzo