linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -next v4 1/6] Revert "frontswap: remove support for multiple ops"

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Date:   Tue, 30 Aug 2022 07:05:59 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Liu Shixin <liushixin2@...wei.com>
Cc:     Seth Jennings <sjenning@...hat.com>,
        Dan Streetman <ddstreet@...e.org>,
        Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@...sulko.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next v4 1/6] Revert "frontswap: remove support for
 multiple ops"

On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 09:22:57PM +0800, Liu Shixin wrote:
> This reverts commit 1da0d94a3ec8c5f3793b7be8538b55e60ebeefe3.

Err, no, this is a way to big hammer and going in the wrong way.
If we can't have a sane way to fix it, the fix is just to remove
the now rather pointless fontswap abstraction entirely.

I'm on vacation this week, but I'll look into it ASAP once back.