linux-kernel - Re: [page-reclaim] Re: [GIT PULL] Multi-gen LRU for 5.18-rc1

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Message-ID: <400edaab-7c6c-f4d1-9a94-e8d0803857fa@redhat.com>
Date:   Mon, 28 Mar 2022 14:29:20 +0200
From:   David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>
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        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>,
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Subject: Re: [page-reclaim] Re: [GIT PULL] Multi-gen LRU for 5.18-rc1

On 26.03.22 21:49, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 19:16:15 -0600 Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 7:07 PM Linus Torvalds
>> <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 6:00 PM Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This is more of an option than a request for 5.18. I'm sending it to
>>>> you directly because, in my judgement, it's now as ready as it'll ever
>>>> be.
>>>
>>> So I do expect to merge this, but I don't think it has been in
>>> linux-next, has it?
>>
>> No. I could ask Stephen to see if he is willing to take this series. I
>> was hoping to go through Andrew since his tree is what most MM
>> developers test. I haven't heard from Andrew, so I assume he has no
>> strong opinion and I don't want to put him in a different position.
> 
> hm, sorry, something in the headers here fooled my (elaborate) procmail
> rules :(
> 
> Please yes, let's have a cycle in -next.  I thought we decided to do
> that in discussion with Matthew Wilcox?
> 

I'd appreciate if we could merge most MM-related stuff through the -MM
tree; it exists for a reason IMHO. Andrew, you usually have a very good
feeling when something's ready to be merged upstream (sufficient review
from relevant folks, sufficient exposure via -mm and -next, ...).

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb