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From: "Zi Yan" <ziy@nvidia.com>
To: "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>,
	"David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Baolin Wang" <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
	"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
	"Nico Pache" <nico.pache@linux.dev>,
	"Ryan Roberts" <ryan.roberts@arm.com>,
	"Dev Jain" <dev.jain@arm.com>, "Barry Song" <baohua@kernel.org>,
	"Lance Yang" <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
	"Usama Arif" <usama.arif@linux.dev>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: remove myself as THP co-maintainer
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:32:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DKYY5T6DL56L.312FCMNEL50R5@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ao69UWWf0awFqIXD@gremlin>

On Wed Aug 26, 2026 at 6:23 AM EDT, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2026 at 12:09:31PM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
>> On 8/26/26 11:56, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
>> > Unfortunately my workload is such that I simply no longer have the time to
>> > give THP the focus that it deserves.
>>
>> THP is, unfortunately, one of the busiest MM components, and also the ones where
>> we have to deal with significant legacy code, many suboptimal past design
>> decisions ... and plenty of ideas for improvements that require constant
>> pushback to not make the situation even worse. The time spent on discussions
>> alone is massive.
>
> Yes indeed. It was a very difficult decision, but the sheer throughput and
> attention required has reached a point where it's become infeasible for me
> time-wise.
>
> I do hate to leave you with all of that, but you can always ask me to pop
> into a discussion or cc- me, so hopefully that'll help :)
>
> And as you say, we have an amazing community of reviewers who all help
> enormously.
>
>>
>> Fortunately we have a growing list of reviewers.
>
> Absolutely and I've really loved seeing how people have developed - Lance
> in particular has grown wonderfully, Zi is a star, and in general every

Thank you for the kind words. I really enjoy working with you. Since you
are still around, I am sure we will keep working together. :)

> single person doing THP review - thank you for all of your contributions :)
>
>>
>> It's mostly thankless work, really; but I'd like to express my sincere gratitude
>> for all the work you put into co-maintaing THP over (/me checks MAINTAINERS)
>> more than 1 year!
>
> Thank you that's very kind of you to say! :) Thanks for being a great
> co-maintainer!
>
>> >
>> > So, at least temporarily, step down from the role.
>> >
>>
>> I'm sorry but I can't let you go entirely ;) I'll make sure to CC you on patches
>> that need your feedback!
>
> Absolutely, feel free :)
>
>>
>> Thanks again, Lorenzo!
>
> Thanks :)
>
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>>
>> David
>
> --
> Cheers, Lorenzo




-- 
Best Regards,
Yan, Zi



  reply	other threads:[~2026-08-26 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-26  9:56 [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: remove myself as THP co-maintainer Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-26 10:09 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-26 10:23   ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-26 14:32     ` Zi Yan [this message]
2026-08-27 13:00       ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-26 11:31 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-26 12:43   ` Lance Yang
2026-08-26 13:28     ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-27  8:23   ` Lian Wang (ProcessMission)
2026-08-27 13:06     ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-27  8:38   ` Baolin Wang
2026-08-27 12:54     ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-27 14:15   ` Usama Arif
2026-08-27 14:25     ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-27 15:17       ` Usama Arif
2026-08-28  6:34   ` Vernon Yang
2026-08-28  7:06     ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-26 12:04 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-08-26 12:52   ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-27 13:07     ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-26 21:02 ` Barry Song
2026-08-27  7:37   ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)

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