linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm: remove EXPERIMENTAL flag for zswap

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Message-Id: <20220823152033.66682-1-david@ixit.cz>
Date:   Tue, 23 Aug 2022 17:20:33 +0200
From:   David Heidelberg <david@...t.cz>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     ~okias/devicetree@...ts.sr.ht, David Heidelberg <david@...t.cz>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] mm: remove EXPERIMENTAL flag for zswap

zswap has been with us since 2013, and it's widely used in many products.

Signed-off-by: David Heidelberg <david@...t.cz>
---
 mm/Kconfig | 8 +-------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index 96cd3ae25c6f..ceec438c0741 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ menuconfig SWAP
 	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
 
 config ZSWAP
-	bool "Compressed cache for swap pages (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+	bool "Compressed cache for swap pages"
 	depends on SWAP
 	select FRONTSWAP
 	select CRYPTO
@@ -36,12 +36,6 @@ config ZSWAP
 	  in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster than swap device
 	  reads, can also improve workload performance.
 
-	  This is marked experimental because it is a new feature (as of
-	  v3.11) that interacts heavily with memory reclaim.  While these
-	  interactions don't cause any known issues on simple memory setups,
-	  they have not be fully explored on the large set of potential
-	  configurations and workloads that exist.
-
 config ZSWAP_DEFAULT_ON
 	bool "Enable the compressed cache for swap pages by default"
 	depends on ZSWAP
-- 
2.35.1