Re: [PATCH] mm: kill frontswap

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Mon Jul 17 2023 - 10:13:19 EST


On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 04:42:13AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 03:46:08PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c
> > index 62195f72bf56..1b0128060792 100644
> > --- a/mm/zswap.c
> > +++ b/mm/zswap.c
> > @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
> > /*
> > * zswap.c - zswap driver file
> > *
> > - * zswap is a backend for frontswap that takes pages that are in the process
> > + * zswap is a cache that takes pages that are in the process
> > * of being swapped out and attempts to compress and store them in a
> > * RAM-based memory pool. This can result in a significant I/O reduction on
> > * the swap device and, in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster
> > @@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
> > #include <linux/spinlock.h>
> > #include <linux/types.h>
> > #include <linux/atomic.h>
> > -#include <linux/frontswap.h>
> > #include <linux/rbtree.h>
> > #include <linux/swap.h>
> > #include <linux/crypto.h>
>
> To make this patch compile, I had to add zswap.h to the include list.

I can fix that up, but I'm curious what kind of failure you saw. It
built fine for me, not even a warning.