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[LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Locally attached memory tiering (David Rientjes) https://lore.kernel.org/e90dc785-c4e6-47e4-8eda-d35325c82ff9@google.com David suggests a new LSFMM topic for local-attached memory tiering. [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] CXL Development Discussions (Adam Manzanares) https://lore.kernel.org/9bf86b97-319f-4f58-b658-1fe3ed0b1993@nmtadam.samsung Adam suggests a new LSFMM topic for general CXL development. kdevops BoF at LSFMM (Luis Chamberlain) https://lore.kernel.org/CAB=NE6XyLS1TaAcgzSWa=1pgezRjFoy8nuVtSWSfB8Qsdsx_xQ@mail.gmail.com Luis suggests to have a time slot for sharing ongoing developments and changes for kdevops, which automates complex kernel development workflows. [RFC PATCH 0/2] introduce budgt control in readahead (Zhaoyang Huang) https://lore....

[PATCH] thp: Remove HPAGE_PMD_ORDER minimum assertion (Matthew Wilcox) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240429190114.3126789-1-willy@infradead.org Willy removes the assumption that THP order is always two or more, since we now handle order-1 folios correctly. [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] SLUB: what’s next? (Vlastimil Babka) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b929d5fb-8e88-4f23-8ec7-6bdaf61f84f9@suse.cz Vlastimil proposes an LSFMM session to retrospect the SLAB deprecation, share ongoing works, and discuss possible future works for reducing similar allocators such as objpool or mempool. [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Maple Tree Proposed Features (Liam R....

[RFC PATCH 0/5] add mTHP support for anonymous share pages (Baolin Wang) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1713755580.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Baolin adds mTHP support for anonymous shared pages with this RFC patchset. There are some todo items, though. [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] SLAB BOF (Matthew Wilcox) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZiZy2VVpTQMjN-ko@casper.infradead.org In this mail, Matthew introduces his radical idea around Slab allocator, which decouples the objects from the page and proposes a BoF to discuss it with not only Vlastimil but more audiences....

[RFC 0/3] Improve memory statistics for virtio balloon (zhenwei pi) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240415084113.1203428-1-pizhenwei@bytedance.com This RFC patchset exposes six new VM statistics in the guest to the host via virtio-balloon. The statistics include oom-kill, alloc-stall, scan-async, scan-direct, reclaim-async, and reclaim-direct. [PATCH] Documentation: coding-style: don’t encourage WARN*() (Alex Elder) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240414170850.148122-1-elder@linaro.org Due to the panic_on_warn setting, even WARN() and its friends are not that welcomed in multiple situations. Alex posted a patchset to make this point clearer....

[PATCH v4 0/9] transfer page to folio in KSM (Alex Shi) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240409092826.1733637-1-alexs@kernel.org Alex sent the first patchset for making KSM uses folios. [PATCH] tracing: Add new_exec tracepoint (Marco Elver) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240408090205.3714934-1-elver@google.com Marco sent a patch for adding a new tracepoint. The tracepoint is for tracing a case where new exec starts while having original state including the mm. Announcing Community Engagement Working Group (Nikolai Kondrashov) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/bf81be70-61ec-4169-b66a-5c3136869107@gmail.com/ KernelCI project announces Community Engagement Working Group which will purpose to connect with kernel maintainers and discuss test quality improvement for their subsystems....