linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] vma count: fixes, test and improvements

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Message-ID: <aa95777a-8012-4d08-abcf-7175f9e2691c@lucifer.local>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:12:03 +0100
From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@...gle.com>, minchan@...nel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] vma count: fixes, test and improvements

On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 03:34:01PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Anyhow, this -rc cycle has been quite the firehose in MM and I'm
> feeling a need to slow things down for additional stabilization and so
> people hopefully get additional bandwidth to digest the material we've
> added this far.  So I think I'll just cherrypick [1/7] for now.  A
> great flood of positive review activity would probably make me revisit
> that ;)
>

Kalesh - I do intend to look at this series when I have a chance. My review
workload has been insane so it's hard to keep up at the moment.

Andrew - This cycle has been crazy, speaking from point of view of somebody
doing a lot of review, it's been very very exhausting from this side too,
and this kind of work can feel a little... thankless... sometimes :)

I feel like we maybe need a way to ask people to slow down, sometimes at
least.

Perhaps being less accepting of patches during merge window is one aspect,
as the merge window leading up to this cycle was almost the same review
load as when the cycle started.

Anyway, TL;DR: I think we need to be mindful of reviewer sanity as a factor
in all this too :)

(I am spekaing at Kernel Recipes then going on a very-badly-needed 2.5 week
vacataion afterwards over the merge window so I hope to stave off burnout
that way. Be good if I could keep mails upon return to 3 digits, but I have
my doubts :P)

Cheers, Lorenzo