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[PATCH v3 00/11] mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements (David Hildenbrand)

https://lore.kernel.org/20250811112631.759341-1-david@redhat.com

David posted third version of the patch series for improving vm_normal_page*().

[RFC PATCH v4 00/28] Cache aware load-balancing (Chen Yu)

https://lore.kernel.org/cover.1754712565.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com

Chen Yu posted a patch series for cache-aware scheduping, which was originally proposed by Pter.

[PATCH 00/10] mm: make mm->flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all arches (Lorenzo Stoakes)

https://lore.kernel.org/cover.1755012943.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com

Lorenzo posted a patch series for refactoring mm->flags for arch-indenpendent and safe-to-use type.

[PATCH v4 0/7] prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when advised (Usama Arif)

https://lore.kernel.org/20250813135642.1986480-1-usamaarif642@gmail.com

Usama posted the fourth version of the patch series for making per-process inheritant THP policy.

[RFC PATCH -next 00/16] mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE (Quanmin Yan)

https://lore.kernel.org/20250813050706.1564229-1-yanquanmin1@huawei.com

Quanmin posted an RFC patch series for supporting DAMON on ARM32 with LPAE.

[RFC PATCH v1 0/7] A subsystem for hot page detection and promotion (Bharata B Rao)

https://lore.kernel.org/20250814134826.154003-1-bharata@amd.com

Bharata posted RFC v1 for a subsystem that dedicated for hot pages detection and promotion.