Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] mm: switch THP shrinker to list_lru

From: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)

Date: Thu Mar 19 2026 - 07:46:34 EST


On Thu, Mar 19, 2026 at 09:52:14AM +0100, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> > TL;DR - anyway, I think get_maintainer.pl --nogit (and trim anyone who
> > isn't listed as a maintainer or reviewer) is the right balance to take -
> > maintainers with screwed up email set ups (*cough* naming no names
> > beginning with L and ending with orenzo) and reviewers who have signed up
> > for lots of mail I think are totally fine to always send to.
>
> On some simplistic changes (e.g., simple function rename) I sometimes
> drop the Reviewers of subsystems because the simplistic changes are
> mostly just as information to maintainers that there might be conflicts.

Yeah makes sense!

>
> That helped in the past to reduce the CC lists on series that touch many
> archs / subsystems.

It'd be nice if get_maintainer.pl could have some functionality to make all this
easier. But that sounds like self-volunteering a bit too much :P *cough*

>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> David

Cheers, Lorenzo