linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: kill frontswap

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Message-ID: <ZLIVleBYOm4HIGTZ@casper.infradead.org>
Date:   Sat, 15 Jul 2023 04:42:13 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com>,
        Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@...il.com>,
        konrad.wilk@...cle.com, vitaly.wool@...sulko.com,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: kill frontswap

On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 03:46:08PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c
> index 62195f72bf56..1b0128060792 100644
> --- a/mm/zswap.c
> +++ b/mm/zswap.c
> @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
>  /*
>   * zswap.c - zswap driver file
>   *
> - * zswap is a backend for frontswap that takes pages that are in the process
> + * zswap is a cache that takes pages that are in the process
>   * of being swapped out and attempts to compress and store them in a
>   * RAM-based memory pool.  This can result in a significant I/O reduction on
>   * the swap device and, in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster
> @@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
>  #include <linux/spinlock.h>
>  #include <linux/types.h>
>  #include <linux/atomic.h>
> -#include <linux/frontswap.h>
>  #include <linux/rbtree.h>
>  #include <linux/swap.h>
>  #include <linux/crypto.h>

To make this patch compile, I had to add zswap.h to the include list.