> > I tried to be helpful, finding ways *not having to* bypass the MM > > community to get MM stuff merged. > > > > The reply I got is mostly negative energy. > > > > So you don't need my help here, understood. > > > > But I will fight against any attempts to bypass the MM community. > > Well, I'm definitely not trying to bypass the MM community, that's why > this patchset is posted. Not sure why people can't voice their opinion > on the benefit/cost balance of the patchset over the email... But if a > meeting would be more productive I'm happy to set it up. Discussing these concerns during the next available MM Alignment session makes sense. At a minimum, Suren and Kent can present their reasons for believing the current approach is superior to the previously proposed alternatives. However, delaying the discussion and feature merge until after LSF/MM seems unnecessary. As I mentioned earlier in this thread, we've already leveraged the concepts within this feature to debug unexplained memory overhead, saving us many terabytes of memory. This was just the initial benefit; we haven't even explored its full potential to track every allocation path. Pasha