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To: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" Cc: Kairui Song , Chris Li , Johannes Weiner , Michal Hocko , Roman Gushchin , Shakeel Butt , Yosry Ahmed , Muchun Song , Kemeng Shi , Baoquan He , Barry Song , YoungJun Park , Chengming Zhou , "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" , "Liam R. Howlett" , "Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" , Mike Rapoport , =?UTF-8?Q?Suren_Baghdasaryan=EF=BF=BC?= , Qi Zheng , Axel Rasmussen , Yuanchu Xie , Wei Xu , Rik van Riel , Gregory Price , Wenchao Hao , Jonathan Corbet , Hugh Dickins , Baolin Wang , Tejun Heo , =?UTF-8?Q?Michal_Koutn=C3=BD?= , Shuah Khan , Kunwu Chan , Meta kernel team , Linux Memory Management List , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, "open list:CONTROL GROUP - MEMORY RESOURCE CONTROLLER (MEMCG)" , Andrew Morton , Kairui Song , Joshua Hahn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 10, 2026 at 3:57=E2=80=AFAM David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote: > > On 9/8/26 18:45, Nhat Pham wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 7, 2026 at 4:30=E2=80=AFAM David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote: > >> > >> On 9/4/26 23:14, Nhat Pham wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >>> To Kairui, Johannes, Yosry, Chris, David, Andrew, and other (z)swap f= olks - > >>> I need some help here. > >> > >> I'll mostly ignore swap-related stuff because (a) -EBUSY and (b) we ha= ve quite > >> some swap experts around :) > >> > >> Reading below, I do wonder if the swap subsystem needs some more coord= ination > >> and collaboration? > >> > >> For example, maybe having bi-weekly/monthly meetings to get everybody = aligned > >> and uptodate could be something reasonable? > >> > >> This approach has proven fairly helpful in areas where (1) multiple co= mpanies > >> are involved (2) many concurrent development is happening, and (3) peo= ple have > >> different priorities and requirements. > >> > >> Is there already something like that to organize development? Should w= e get > >> started with that? > > > > Hi David! > > Hi! > > > > > Thank you for your suggestions :) More collaboration and communication > > is definitely needed here. Conference is a good place for this, but > > it's not something we can do very frequently, and many folks could not > > attend (visa issues, etc.). > > Right, and conferences usually don't have the capacity to squeeze too man= y > swap-related topics in, so it would have to be side discussions or BOFs. > > > > > A bi-weekly/monthly series of meetings sound very appealing. Swap > > contributors are very spread out (China, NorAm, Europe, etc.), so > > coordination will be tricky, but let us figure out something. > > Yes, that's an issue. I'd suggest swap maintainers take care of that if t= hey > agree. I could try as well, but it's rather tricky right now on my end ..= . > > As an alternative, we could also use on/two/ ... slots in the bi-weekly M= M > alignment session to talk about swap. (I'd be happy to learn more about a= ll this > as well) That's awesome! Thanks for the offer David - I think MM alignment is at 9AM PDT Wednesday, usually right? That works for me of course, but Baoquan and Kairui (and other swap folks) - would this time be convenient for you? > > -- > Cheers, > > David