A new era for memory-management maintainership
a day ago
- #Linux Kernel
- #Memory Management
- #Maintainership Transition
- Andrew Morton is stepping down as maintainer of the memory-management subsystem, with David Hildenbrand taking over the integration tree.
- Splitting the subsystem is challenging due to heavy interlinking of core concepts like THP, cgroup, and NUMA across many files.
- Concerns were raised about review workload being lopsided, with few carrying most of the burden, and the potential demotivating impact of LLM-based review tools on new reviewers.