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

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Message-Id: <20240116120944.01f25e65d13f0fc7e2a2df34@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2024 12:09:44 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.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 Mon, 17 Jul 2023 12:02:27 -0400 Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org> wrote:

> The only user of frontswap is zswap, and has been for a long
> time. Have swap call into zswap directly and remove the indirection.

This falls afoul of "mm: zswap: multiple zpools support".  Could we
please have a version against mm-unstable or linux-next?