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Mercier" , Baolin Wang , Suren Baghdasaryan , Meta kernel team , bpf@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Towards Unified and Extensible Memory Reclaim (reclaim_ext) Message-Id: <20260325190547.abb7309fb63473b57b7a90a0@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20260325210637.3704220-1-shakeel.butt@linux.dev> References: <20260325210637.3704220-1-shakeel.butt@linux.dev> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.8.0beta1 (GTK+ 2.24.33; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Server: rspam01 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 8208A14000E X-Stat-Signature: dfyqezmhpr8du5iegruxgsjcb77k47m7 X-Rspam-User: X-HE-Tag: 1774490750-930474 X-HE-Meta: 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 NtdzPWZb MGcGlK8hwfNBWvYoogD9Ymq2KGImA2UM9eaLlDpnX/3G5TVoTPnmXlVg/eB8nnR3xMZxFulkjm97sYVw8h/e0kjv8NxrbcAxPoFLQpldQ1l99S+/EOm156In8zYxS2p/U8lQB4RwgCQ1/nx1lyKTU9QrNgbAXP5hoEu1JE+nf2V4r7MQhcXgEUA/V7G6Zs32mAnt5eVC39p+B+OeDqO7TStTFi2l0nwX3MIK5IuFSX+6/vAbxXj6PCfaW7YVWZCpXv1iWc5kF8YsWv0K5lO64n74AkeqhDeEgP0sjRTHiO+72oOo= Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:06:37 -0700 Shakeel Butt wrote: > We should unify both algorithms into a single code path. I'm here to ask the questions which others fear will sound dumb. Is it indeed the plan to maintain both implementations? I thought the long-term ambition was to knock MGLRU into shape and to drop the legacy LRU? And that Linus has expressed such a desire, but my googling fails me.