From: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>,
"Matthew Wilcox" <willy@infradead.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
"ksummit@lists.linux.dev" <ksummit@lists.linux.dev>
Subject: Re: [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] Folios as a potential Kernel/Maintainers Summit topic?
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 18:41:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17242A0C-3613-41BB-84E4-2617A182216E@fb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YUI5bk/94yHPZIqJ@mit.edu>
> On Sep 15, 2021, at 2:20 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 02:03:46PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
>> On Wed, 2021-09-15 at 13:42 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>> [...]
>>> Would this be helpful? (Or Linus could pull either the folio or
>>> pageset branch, and make this proposal obsolete, which would be
>>> great. :-)
>>
>> This is a technical rather than process issue isn't it? You don't have
>> enough technical people at the Maintainer summit to help meaningfully.
>> The ideal location, of course, was LSF/MM which is now not happening.
>>
>> However, we did offer the Plumbers BBB infrastructure to willy for a MM
>> gathering which could be expanded to include this.
>
> Well, that's why I was suggesting doing this as a LPC BOF, and using
> an LPC BOF session on Friday --- I'm very much aware we don't have the
> right tehcnical people at the Maintainer Summit.
>
> It's not clear we will have enough MM folks at the LPC, and I agree
> LSF/MM would be a better venue --- but as you say, it's not happening.
> We could also use the BBB infrastructure after the LPC as well, if we
> can't get everyone lined up and available on short notice. There are
> a lot of different possibilities; I'm for anything where all of the
> stakeholders agree will work, so we can make forward progress.
I think the two different questions are:
* What work is left for merging folios?
* What process should we use to make the overall development of folio sized changes more predictable and rewarding for everyone involved?
-chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-15 18:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-15 17:42 [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] Folios as a potential Kernel/Maintainers Summit topic? Theodore Ts'o
2021-09-15 18:03 ` James Bottomley
2021-09-15 18:20 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-09-15 18:41 ` Chris Mason [this message]
2021-09-15 19:15 ` James Bottomley
2021-09-15 20:48 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-09-16 14:55 ` Kent Overstreet
2021-09-16 13:51 ` David Howells
2021-09-16 16:46 ` Chris Mason
2021-09-16 17:11 ` James Bottomley
2021-09-16 19:15 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-09-16 19:26 ` Andrew Morton
2021-09-16 20:16 ` Kent Overstreet
2021-09-17 1:42 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-09-17 4:58 ` Kent Overstreet
2021-09-16 20:38 ` Chris Mason
2021-09-16 21:00 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2021-09-17 11:14 ` James Bottomley
2021-09-17 12:36 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2021-09-17 13:00 ` James Bottomley
2021-09-17 14:36 ` Chris Mason
2021-09-16 17:15 ` Kent Overstreet
2021-09-16 22:27 ` Chris Mason
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