Re: [TECH TOPIC] Per-cgroup Swap Device Control

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 01:10:22PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:58:16 +0100
> Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> > > Proposal:
> > > I am developing on a restricted internal platform where there is a
> > > technical requirement to use idle devices as extended memory.  
> > 
> > I don't think this is appropriate for the maintainer summit.  You
> > can submit it to the Plumbers MM microconf [1] or LSFMM in May.
> > 
> > [1] https://lpc.events/event/19/contributions/1995/
> > 
> > Also you should have cc'd linux-mm for this kind of thing, adding
> > it now.  Preserving the rest of the proposal for those who are
> > interested.
> 
> From Ted's original email: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250805144357.GA762104@mit.edu/
> 
>   Related to the Maintainer's Summit, the Kernel Summit is organized as a
>   track which is run in parallel with the other tracks at the Linux
>   Plumbers Conference (LPC), and is open to all registered attendees of
>   LPC.  The goal of the Kernel Summit track will be to provide a forum to
>   discuss specific technical issues that would be easier to resolve in
>   person than over e-mail.  The program committee will also consider
>   "information sharing" topics if they are clearly of interest to the wider
>   development community (i.e., advanced training in topics that would be
>   useful to kernel developers).
> 
>   To suggest a topic for the Kernel Summit, please do two things. by
>   September 10th, 2025. First, please send e-mail with a subject prefix of
>   [TECH TOPIC] to ksummit@lists.linux.dev.  As before, please use a
>   separate e-mail for each topic.
> 
> So this appears to be appropriate.

My mistake.  I thought tech topics were part of maintainer summit, not
part of the kernel track.  It'll be up to the kernel track organiser(s)
whether to accept it to that track or whether they think it'll be more
appropriate in the MM microconf.