From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.2 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29C67C433FE for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2021 19:26:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 000DA6103C for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2021 19:26:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230167AbhIPT2S (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Sep 2021 15:28:18 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:53736 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229455AbhIPT2Q (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Sep 2021 15:28:16 -0400 Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5DF9B610E9; Thu, 16 Sep 2021 19:26:53 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linux-foundation.org; s=korg; t=1631820413; bh=cj4YYql3ialFH5a3FIsQKbEh3n2waZxbKmXBYlo5ynk=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=wdf67NTnj8bDQNSnGOX2sXk1GF2gDGSOttrakL9aAa7bg20ZWrn1C5mEpcQd9Vw1r K14k1JMqcRv2/wJBiXdHtKJ6WEM8L6rNW8lcAaoV0/6Z5nLmt5E/tjLUeErUhnajMU Rm7FKOONV0I+tiPRTX5DNzKLBHBEXAYdfQ8Q5QwQ= Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 12:26:52 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: James Bottomley , Chris Mason , Johannes Weiner , Kent Overstreet , Matthew Wilcox , Linus Torvalds , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , linux-fsdevel , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "Darrick J. Wong" , Christoph Hellwig , David Howells , "ksummit@lists.linux.dev" Subject: Re: [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] Folios as a potential Kernel/Maintainers Summit topic? Message-Id: <20210916122652.b6ab789e968263eb4ab31626@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: <17242A0C-3613-41BB-84E4-2617A182216E@fb.com> <33a2000f56d51284e2df0cfcd704e93977684b59.camel@HansenPartnership.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.5.1 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 16 Sep 2021 15:15:29 -0400 "Theodore Ts'o" wrote: > What typically happens is if someone were to try to play games like > this inside, say, the Networking subsystem, past a certain point, > David Miller will just take the patch series, ignoring people who have > NACK's down if they can't be justified. The difference is that even > though Andrew Morton (the titular maintainer for all of Memory > Management, per the MAINTAINERS file), Andrew seems to have a much > lighter touch on how the mm subsystem is run. I do the Dave thing sometimes. We aren't at that point with folios though. The discussions and objections and approvals are all substantial and things are still playing out.