linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 00/23] mm: balloon infrastructure cleanups

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Message-ID: <dd326898-ac9c-494e-8af0-9a1ec382598f@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:47:13 +0100
From: "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@...nel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/23] mm: balloon infrastructure cleanups

On 1/15/26 19:49, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:19:50 +0100 "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@...nel.org> wrote:
> 
>> I started with wanting to remove the dependency of the balloon
>> infrastructure on the page lock, but ended up performing various other
>> cleanups, some of which I had on my todo list for years.
>>
>> This series heavily cleans up and simplifies our balloon infrastructure,
>> including our balloon page migration functionality.
> 
> Thanks, I'll add this.  Again, I'll suppress the ensuing 528 emails.
> 
> Sigh, I do worry that the ongoing email deluge is training people to
> ignore addition of things to mm.git.  Maybe more emails like this one
> is the way to address this.

It would be sufficient to only send a single mail for the whole 
patchset, maybe?

-- 
Cheers

David