Re: [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Improving MGLRU

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 5/2/26 10:56, Hillf Danton wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:54:22 +0000 Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 01:25:33AM +0800, Kairui Song wrote:
>> > MGLRU has been introduced in the mainline for years, but we still have two LRUs
>> > today. There are many reasons MGLRU is still not the only LRU implementation in
>> > the kernel.
>> 
>> To my mind, the biggest problem with MGLRU is that Google dumped it on us
>> and ran away.  Commit 44958000bada claimed that it was now maintained and
>> added three people as maintainers.  In the six months since that commit,
>> none of those three people have any commits in mm/!  This is a shameful
>> state of affairs.
>> 
>> I say rip it out.
>> 
> I suspect you are kidding again. Go and cut it off then we know how sharp
> you are.
> 

I can't wait for the day when you finally decide to do that with your e-mail
"contributions".