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[PATCH v7 00/70] Introducing the Maple Tree (Liam Howlett) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220404143501.2016403-1-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com The seventh version of the Maple tree patchset has posted. Liam is explicitly asking Andrew to merge it in -mm. LSF/MM/BPF: 2022: Call for Proposals VIRTUAL OPTION (Josef Bacik) https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/YksmQSfuIx%2FOiNA8@localhost.localdomain/ CFP for virtual attendee of LSF/MM/BPF has posted. The virtual instance of LSF/MM/BPF will be hosted on Zoom. mmotm 2022-04-04-17-10 uploaded (Andrew Morton) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220405001100.410E3C2BBE4@smtp.kernel.org The mmotm snapshot has updated. It’s rebased on v5....

[LSF/MM TOPIC] Improving OOM debugging (Ken Overstreet) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220322005101.actefn6nttzeo2qr@moria.home.lan Ken proposes an LSF/MM slot for discussing OOM debugging situation improvement with two ideas from his side. incoming (Andrew Morton) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220322143803.04a5e59a07e48284f196a2f9@linux-foundation.org Andrew Morton has sent 227 patches to Linus Torvalds, as the first batch of the pull requests for v5.18. It includes DAMON patches including pid hiding and its sysfs interface, and merged. [PATCH 0/2] mm: madvise: return exact bytes advised with process_madvise under error (Charan Teja Kalla) https://lkml....

mmotm 2022-03-14-22-42 uploaded (Andrew Morton) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220315054352.5B187C340E8@smtp.kernel.org The -mm tree is updated. It is rebased on 5.17-rc8, added 20 new patches, modified 10 patches, and dropped 2 patches. In total, 475 patches in the queue. [LSF/MM TOPIC] Better handling of negative dentries (Mattew Wilcox) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YjDvRPuxPN0GsxLB@casper.infradead.org There could be millions of negative dentries on a system having large memory and no memory pressure, because the number of negative dentries is constrained only by memory size....

mmotm 2022-03-06-20-33 uploaded (Andrew Morton) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220307043435.251DBC340E9@smtp.kernel.org The -mm tree has updated. It’s based on v5.17-rc6, added 19 patches, modified 6 patches, and dropped 19 patches. In totla, 428 patches in the queue. [PATCH v3] mm: add ztree - new allocator for use via zpool API (Ananda) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220307142724.14519-1-a.badmaev@clicknet.pro Third version of ztree, which is intended to be used for storing compressed objects per ztree block. Comparing to the previous version, compiler warnings have fixed....

[PATCH/RESEND] mm: add ztree - new allocator for use via zpool API (Ananda) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220228110546.151513-1-a.badmaev@clicknet.pro Ztree is another zpool backend that superior with regard to the worst execution time. mmotm 2022-02-28-14-45 uploaded (Andrew Morton) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220228224600.44415C340EE@smtp.kernel.org mmotm has updated. It’s rebased on 5.17-rc6, added 56 new patches, modified 85 patches, and dropped 55 patches. In total, 378 patches are in the queue. [PATCH -V14 0/3] NUMA balancing: optimize memory placement for memory tiering system (Huang Ying) https://lkml....