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

[Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 07:16:45PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:12:03 +0100 Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> > 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 hear you.  I'm shedding most everything now, to give us a couple of
> weeks to digest.

Thanks, much appreciated! :)

>
> > I feel like we maybe need a way to ask people to slow down, sometimes at
> > least.
>
> Yup, I'm sending submitters private emails explaining the situation.

And again, much appreciated :)

>
> Maybe they should be public emails, I find it a hard call.

Yeah it can be hard to get that balance right. Maybe public is better when
we're deeper in the rc and there's a general load problem?

>
> > 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.
>
> I'm having trouble understanding what you said here?

Sorry, what I mean to say is that in mm we're pretty open to taking stuff in the
merge window, esp. now we have mm-new.

And last merge window my review load felt similar to during a cycle, which
was kind of crazy.

So I wonder if we should be less accommodating and simply say 'sorry it's
the merge window, no submissions accepted'?

Of course I'm being a bit selfish here as I'm on holiday in the next merge
window and hope forlornly to reduce the mail I come back to :P

>
> > 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)
>
> I'd blow that in three days ;)

Haha yeah I bet :)

Cheers, Lorenzo