Re: [PATCH v7 00/15] mm/mglru: improve reclaim loop and dirty folio handling

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 27 May 2026 13:36:06 +0800 Kairui Song <ryncsn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 06:35:06PM +0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Mon, 11 May 2026 22:56:21 -0700 Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 
> > > No worries, we have couple of weeks before the next merge window, so no urgency.
> > 
> > Well, no, not really.  Some schmuck wants to get our
> > stable-non-rebasing branch into upstreamable shape well before the next
> > merge window.
> > 
> > This series was issued a month ago!
> > 
> > Sorry to crack the whip, but let's please all be aware or our
> > upstreaming timing.
> > 
> > > I will go through the series in depth, hopefully there will not be a need for
> > > next version and in that case, please just resend the cover letter with the
> > > information you provided below and don't worry about the length of the cover
> > > letter.
> > 
> > That's a plan.
> > 
> > Happily, MGRLU changes are well-isolated so I was able to trivially
> > move this series to the tail of mm-unstable.
> > 
> > It isn't a problem at all for me to defer this until the next cycle -
> > please let me know.
> > 
> > I'd like to know this as early as possible so I can hide the series
> > until after -rc1.  We shouldn't have "not for next merge window"
> > material in there possibly invalidating our ongoing testing.
> 
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> >From my side I didn't see any major reason to block this. There has
> been plenty of review and the series has been tested many times. I
> also re-ran with more rounds, with CLRU baseline, and the numbers
> are very close to what was already posted.

OK...

> But anyway, looking forward to Shakeel's review, and here is an
> updated cover letter folding in the additions. There is not
> much change: refreshed numbers, an "MGLRU disabled" (classical LRU)
> row added to each benchmark, a short note on why each benchmark is
> used, and three extra Link: tags. No code changes:

Updated, thanks.