From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mta0.migadu.com (out-70.mta0.migadu.com [91.218.175.70]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C94653D6479 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:17:26 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=91.218.175.70 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1787843850; cv=none; b=tQHN3aq4AWeT2xX4HuBmlJhRvxg5SsUpMXgXu26GxIQjtXJlFlzkDSu9qn6XeBRF+za/t2D1oC0I2RkVTTfAl1qfkL2ataC16YdNckMdCyLJ/IAWJF7T2sSSs0uviE76iCwXZdC8bLj7zgPnPemg+XhmY48w0Sd6B2sLJmXeSq0= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1787843850; c=relaxed/simple; bh=g99OLAAAnjbXW5zwa+srzNjASgOnpSbteUzkGHrKJBI=; h=Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:Subject:To:Cc:References:From: In-Reply-To:Content-Type; b=imbzkpDOkhl/cgJJNZtDmUQ1FcZ9ArfDttdjhr7MKGHF/ISEpDVDtNE3m0ozil38tMd1kiXGp7O6sUDuIqI3jwN4JRS02M7+haFocC9Jn7fE5zSJud5cconcdY66nRE+zXlj1FbpiYJqo+fZ+KKHYzCns8zDFVzEvyF77C5c9zA= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=linux.dev; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=linux.dev; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linux.dev header.i=@linux.dev header.b=gZKJXRsS; arc=none smtp.client-ip=91.218.175.70 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=linux.dev Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=linux.dev Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linux.dev header.i=@linux.dev header.b="gZKJXRsS" X-Envelope-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha256; bh=g99OLAAAnjbXW5zwa+srzNjASgOnpSbteUzkGHrKJBI=; c=simple/simple; d=linux.dev; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=key1; t=1787843843; v=1; x=1788448643; b=gZKJXRsS8rFdNHW+7kqCS5eyT9kFSoaeRg9PGcCQt4ygNXhb0V3TDmr7+AsspphK6ftfRBks 63yYN3YfWXDH0VmsgXe/uWEGhGqPCZ/bGp2fI36aB2xprjJm2pFVwYqIIgiD/vixdrtybpOdHt2 z2H45bx3o0svINibNNBNUtrU= X-Envelope-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Received: by smtp.migadu.com with ESMTPS id 95c7913dc38281fa; Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:17:23 +0000 X-Mizu-Trace-ID: 95c7913dc38281fa X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_OUT Message-ID: <05f7cf39-b133-4cc9-8082-40b081b7f908@linux.dev> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:17:16 +0100 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: remove myself as THP co-maintainer To: "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" Cc: Andrew Morton , David Hildenbrand , Zi Yan , Baolin Wang , "Liam R. Howlett" , Nico Pache , Ryan Roberts , Dev Jain , Barry Song , Lance Yang , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org References: <20260826-drop-thp-maintainership-v1-1-3d102748fa17@kernel.org> <054cf257-f5d6-4041-8c83-902af87c736d@linux.dev> Content-Language: en-US From: Usama Arif In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 27/08/2026 15:25, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2026 at 03:15:47PM +0100, Usama Arif wrote: >> >> >> On 26/08/2026 12:31, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote: >>> Since it's 2026 :) I asked Claude to look at my time as THP co-maintainer: >>> >>> ~107,000 words of review across 948 emails (in 279 distinct >>> threads), counting only prose you actually wrote — quoted text, >>> signatures and attribution lines stripped. That's a full novel's >>> worth of review commentary. >>> >>> Along the way you handed out 194 Reviewed-by and 15 Acked-by tags, >>> and your longest single review was 2,404 words (mTHP collapse >>> support, v12 — the khugepaged/mTHP collapse saga accounts for most >>> of your top-10 longest reviews). >>> >>> Estimated review time: roughly 300–500 hours, centred around ~400 >>> (i.e. ~7 hours/week for 14 months). >>> >>> 1,615 THP-related emails in the window: 948 reviews of others' >>> work, 278 replies on your own THP-touching series threads (~31k >>> more words responding to review), 382 patch emails, and a handful >>> of MAINTAINERS bits. Busiest months: March 2026 (131 review >>> emails), June 2026 (113), August 2026 (111); quietest was December >>> 2025 (5). >>> >>> Think I can be happy with that! >>> >> Ah so sorry to see you step down, you made THP genuinely better! >> >> The numbers show the amount of effort you have put in, but they don't capture >> how consistently useful and detailed your reviews are, with the aim of >> always trying to make the patches and THP better! >> >> Thanks for being an awesome maintainer and hopefully you will consider >> coming back soon! > > Thanks Usama! :) I know we started off with some fireworks on review 😅 but > you've always been fantastic to work with and it's been great to see you > develop as a contributor. > > BTW, I did want to say but never got around to it - I love how you've > approached the PUD THP stuff - i.e. getting the huge swap stuff sorted > first, gradually building things up, etc.! > > You've always given interesting sessions + input at LSF and have had great > insights on how stuff interacts with the Meta fleet also! :) > > It was especially interesting to hear that 512 MiB huge pages have actually > resulted in far less memory usage than you might expect :) > > I will still be busy upstream with the 4 other maintainerships to keep me > busy, along with series both in kvmarm and core mm so don't worry I'm not > going anywhere :) > > And as I said to David and others, always feel free to cc- me or ping me > off-list etc. if I can be of use for THP stuff, even though I'm taking a > break from the maintainership side! > Thanks for the kind words! It has been awesome working with you and discussing different topics at conferences and the mailing list! I am sure we will continue to in the future! >> >> Thanks, >> Usama > > -- > Cheers, Lorenzo