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Message-ID: <877d03kfr8.fsf@meer.lwn.net>
Date:   Wed, 09 Nov 2022 13:57:31 -0700
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     David Heidelberg <david@...t.cz>
Cc:     ~okias/devicetree@...ts.sr.ht, David Heidelberg <david@...t.cz>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Docs/admin-guide/mm/zswap: remove a paragraph about
 zswap being a new feature

David Heidelberg <david@...t.cz> writes:

> 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:
>  

Applied, thanks.

jon

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