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b=IYH3mfpzDswbaOrZEMSyJkQn4TtuIlf3oKTxhOb6+XxwWluJ43ISipgfryddLDRgJ PqkWYF0QJ5NKH1oN7cLwuZljBH0eN1iHId1LvrXJ3wxmhry3ujODVGnZMBxS/qdbTk dQheXxoO6O/wHqVi3oU8PyRArD+HXgy+jiSmD+w0= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2026 10:35:10 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" Cc: "linux-mm@kvack.org" , Lorenzo Stoakes Subject: Re: MM: Firefighting mode Message-Id: <20261109103510.48e62893b686519f37157977@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.8.0beta1 (GTK+ 2.24.33; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Archived-By: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Stat-Signature: xbx9zu3u4tyj9iuxffwo7gnp5x636p8n X-Rspamd-Server: rspam01 X-Rspam-User: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.1 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 962A480004 X-HE-Tag: 1794249311-885843 X-HE-Meta: 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 xp8lEoJz uuPxsjktHdE6D4sUfNNoZRRpjZ+oWDoA62yzgn7SbfkJa/o6/WkA8xh4AtlPaT3jhc5e3/lHtuEXkyjzQn/eesn+3TH7hP7RIUgfFqTHHeV9bco19/vossKAAv9S0vI37yl7+ZKbXOo2OdP+8IedSSZzBbhUL8ZFiewWaxd75TCFt9kBmxlnqED072Vx+6i4rReAIvCvA3zLEaiqebT+kCQGyaAwl8E9uUO43LIGxNZ54qr8vOlW1ITXXNemgstQPXyVl1WRLyrW+irmD9XRI2TfcVZdgHefgD2WCMtEcVRpQEIpiVCRwPG57bDS1MqO2AQNuqr+RJufucbRNNc1TEhmuEuR/FLoheZ2FzNVNjptLuswX3FgfMIeeCd7bK3+LZ10+ Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: List-Subscribe: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.1 (2024-03-26) on aws-us-west-2-korg-listserv-alma10-1 On Mon, 9 Nov 2026 19:15:17 +0100 "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" wrote: > Hi all, > > "Your message is important to us, please continue to hold. An MM expert will > be with you as soon as possible." Thanks, David. > I wanted to send this out last week, but somehow didn't manage to do it even > after being reminded by Lorenzo (thanks!) :) > > If you haven't noticed, the MM team is busy right now either fixing bugs or > reviewing these fixes. > > Or fixing bugs we found while reviewing fixes. > > Or reviewing fixes for bugs we found while reviewing fixes. > > Or ... > > Anyhow, our focus this cycle in MM is clearly on bugfixes of different urgency, > and I'd like to thank all of our MM community members for helping out with > fixing bugs or reviewing fixes! And can I draw attention to a thing Lorenzo said recently: https://lore.kernel.org/arOMefPN1gxMpyx8@gremlin As I mentioned at this year's LSFMMBPF meeting, it continues to be the case that our review activity is quite lopsided. So yes, people, please do dig in and help. > That doesn't mean that we should stop any other development. In particular, I > want us to continue making progress on work we started in the last cycle. > > Removing code or nice (easy-to-review) cleanups are always appreciated. > > But be aware that we only have limited capacity for big, very complicated, or > controversial things that need a lot of attention from MM maintainers and > reviewers. In particular if it is low priority. > > So, some stuff will have to wait ... longer than usual. > > So if you feel ignored, it's just the MM team being busy fighting fires. But never forgotten. I'm tracking a backlog of ~150 series/singletons spanning from Oct 10 to present. I won't let stuff fall through cracks, but delays are to be expected!