Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] mm/hugetlb: Dynamic, NUMA-aware HugePage Cache & Free Page Reporting

[David Hildenbrand (Arm)]

On 7/7/26 21:32, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2026 at 07:46:28PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 07, 2026 at 10:01:55AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>>
>>> Fair enough.
>>>
>>>
>>> Lorenzo, do you know *how* you want it reworked? Could you write it up
>>> at a high level?
>>> Because if not, it's not really practical to make it the asking price.
>>
>> Michael, you're an experienced maintainer, I'm surprised I have to tell you that
>> the burden for that lands on the submitter.
> 
> Oh sure, "fix bugs A,B,C before you add to this mess" is a classic way
> to actually not end up with even more of a mess.  But I usually do try
> to be explicit of what are specific issues I want submitter to address.
> I don't really feel figuring that out lands on the submitter.

Sometimes it's certainly easier. With things like hugetlb there often just isn't
a feasible way to integrate it nicely into core-mm. It's just too special.

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Cheers,

David