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Message-Id: <20221104122612.14906-1-david@ixit.cz>
Date:   Fri,  4 Nov 2022 13:26:11 +0100
From:   David Heidelberg <david@...t.cz>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     ~okias/devicetree@...ts.sr.ht, David Heidelberg <david@...t.cz>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Docs/admin-guide/mm/zswap: remove a paragraph about zswap being a new feature

Nine years have passed since Linux 3.11.

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

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/zswap.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/zswap.rst
index 6e6f7b0d6562..f67de481c7f6 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/zswap.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/zswap.rst
@@ -14,13 +14,7 @@ for potentially reduced swap I/O.  This trade-off can also result in a
 significant performance improvement if reads from the compressed cache are
 faster than reads from a swap device.
 
-.. note::
-   Zswap is a new feature as of v3.11 and interacts heavily with memory
-   reclaim.  This interaction has not been fully explored on the large set of
-   potential configurations and workloads that exist.  For this reason, zswap
-   is a work in progress and should be considered experimental.
-
-   Some potential benefits:
+Some potential benefits:
 
 * Desktop/laptop users with limited RAM capacities can mitigate the
   performance impact of swapping.
-- 
2.35.1

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