Re: [PATCH] mm: kill frontswap

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Jan 16 2024 - 17:29:59 EST


On Tue, 16 Jan 2024 12:22:03 -0800 Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.

erp, sorry, Flushing out the drafts folder after a long flight. On a
wifi-free airline, wtf.