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

["Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>]

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
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

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Cheers, Lorenzo