Re: mm.git review status (mm-stable)

[Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2026 at 06:45:52PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> I wrote a thing, thought it might be of some interest.
> 
> 
> mm.git review status for linus..mm-stable
> 
> Everything:
> 
> Total patches:       320
> Reviews/patch:       1.40
> Reviewed rate:       74%
> 
> Excluding DAMON:
> 
> Total patches:       259
> Reviews/patch:       1.65
> Reviewed rate:       84%
> 
> Excluding DAMON and zram:
> 
> Total patches:       245
> Reviews/patch:       1.74
> Reviewed rate:       88%
> 

Thanks Andrew for sharing this. It seems like DAMON and zram maintainers
need to convince more folks to be reviewers for their sub-system :P

I think overall we need to incentivize reviewing for MM subsytem. The
netdev and bpf folks publish development stats [1, 2] for each kernel
release. Maybe we can borrow their script [3] to do something similar
for MM as well.


[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251202175548.6b5eb80e@kernel.org/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/aTBxuQSvtATrr3mu@mini-arch/
[3] https://github.com/linux-netdev/ml-stat