Re: [PATCH] mm: kill frontswap

From: Yosry Ahmed
Date: Tue Jan 16 2024 - 17:11:26 EST


On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 12:18 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 12:09:44PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 12:02:27 -0400 Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > The only user of frontswap is zswap, and has been for a long
> > > time. Have swap call into zswap directly and remove the indirection.
> >
> > This falls afoul of "mm: zswap: multiple zpools support". Could we
> > please have a version against mm-unstable or linux-next?
>
> Did this email get caught in a timewarp? Or is it referring to
> something that isn't commit 42c06a0e8ebe from six months ago?

+1. Both of these changes have been in Linus's tree for a while now.
Perhaps Andrew had this email prepared a while ago and never sent it,
and ended up fixing the problem himself.