From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>,
Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>,
Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@konsulko.com>,
Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>,
Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com>,
Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: zswap: support exclusive loads
Date: Tue, 30 May 2023 23:00:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZHbilD8TbMF3+bWz@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230530235447.GB102494@cmpxchg.org>
On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 07:54:47PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Somewhat tangential, but is there still a point to the frontswap
> layer? It seems usecases other than zswap have never materialized, at
> least not in tree. Life would be a lot easier if we were to just
> hardcode the zswap callbacks in the swap functions.
I've been wanting to remove it for a while, as it really is rather
pointless.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-31 6:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-30 21:02 Yosry Ahmed
2023-05-30 21:15 ` Andrew Morton
2023-05-30 21:20 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-05-30 23:54 ` Johannes Weiner
2023-05-30 23:56 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-05-31 6:00 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2023-06-07 14:13 ` Johannes Weiner
2023-06-07 16:33 ` Yosry Ahmed
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