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Tsirkin" , Jason Wang , Xuan Zhuo , Eugenio =?ISO-8859-1?Q?P=E9rez?= , Zi Yan Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/23] mm: balloon infrastructure cleanups Message-Id: <20260115104907.96d2aac4de42dce12d6064d9@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20260115092015.3928975-1-david@kernel.org> References: <20260115092015.3928975-1-david@kernel.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.8.0beta1 (GTK+ 2.24.33; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspam-User: X-Rspamd-Server: rspam07 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 988D9C0008 X-Stat-Signature: ungk6pmqgp9sawk9a6y6sxzydq8fwce7 X-HE-Tag: 1768502949-161110 X-HE-Meta: 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 UTi581O1 P8WWC6r/wZUFWn40cQwNz1yJMKfUwjzydneFeA2NmjZ//oV3HvTd7M7tW422x7MqDx8a8gfxADuR9FmDw8jEMQrZwDtE7WV72EJchw7eGCINI0lFA13IlJedPgVvjpBh7RYuJzQ3nUGiHGIX/rpoWeIYjaUiyiAYvxNMMIXTS6AqLz4DOUpJLzS6XTxbX0u4grNHcz1/1s+y5CfaO/ig872+HQeXG50Igz0yPB8Mgih1z4SSPEFo5QrwEbZWOEwqjmIY2hJE8/TsekFJFXI//I2nh+A== X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:19:50 +0100 "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" 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.