linux-kernel - Re: [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] Folios as a potential Kernel/Maintainers Summit topic?

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Message-ID: <f7b70227bac9a684320068b362d28fcade6b65b9.camel@HansenPartnership.com>
Date:   Wed, 15 Sep 2021 14:03:46 -0400
From:   James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc:     Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, ksummit@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] Folios as a potential Kernel/Maintainers
 Summit topic?

On Wed, 2021-09-15 at 13:42 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
[...]
> Would this be helpful?  (Or Linus could pull either the folio or
> pageset branch, and make this proposal obsolete, which would be
> great.  :-)

This is a technical rather than process issue isn't it?  You don't have
enough technical people at the Maintainer summit to help meaningfully. 
The ideal location, of course, was LSF/MM which is now not happening.

However, we did offer the Plumbers BBB infrastructure to willy for a MM
gathering which could be expanded to include this.

James