Re: [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Towards Unified and Extensible Memory Reclaim (reclaim_ext)

Andrew Morton
2026-03-26T02:05:49Z

On Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:06:37 -0700 Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> 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.