Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] mm/huge_memory: refactor zap_huge_pmd()

Andrew Morton
2026-03-21T03:33:17Z

On Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:21:04 -0700 Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> wrote:

> >
> > Anyway, early days. I'm thinking that an emailed reply-to-all from
> > Sashiko will help. Much hinges on how useful submitters find these
> > questions to be - something which I'm paying close attention to...
>
> For bpf Alexei suggested to always send the review to the author and
> cc the bpf mailing list, but ignore maintainers and other mailing lists
> like lkml to minimize the traffic. It sounds like a good trade off to me.

I'd like to see them.

But I'm figuring it out now - I just let the patchset chill until
Sashiko has looked at it.

> If there are concerns about polluting the mm mailing list, maybe
> something like a new list like "mm-new" / "mm-early" might work?
> Idk what's the best thing here to do, just throwing some ideas.

Yes, a dedicated list might be the way to go.

> Likely next week I'll be able to send reviews over the email
> and I can send them to whoever we think it's appropriate.

Cool.

A lot of patchsets are "failed to apply". What is Sashiko trying to
apply MM patches to? It would take some smarts to apply the v2
patchset when v1 is presently in mm.git?