Re: remove Xen tmem leftovers

From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Tue Jan 04 2022 - 09:31:28 EST


On 24.12.21 07:22, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> since the remove of the Xen tmem driver in 2019, the cleancache hooks are
> entirely unused, as are large parts of frontswap. This series against
> linux-next (with the folio changes included) removes cleancaches, and cuts
> down frontswap to the bits actually used by zswap.
>

Just out of curiosity, why was tmem removed from Linux (or even Xen?).
Do you have any information?

Happy to see this cleanup.

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb