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

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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2024 20:18:38 +0000
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	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 Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 12:09:44PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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?

Did this email get caught in a timewarp?  Or is it referring to
something that isn't commit 42c06a0e8ebe from six months ago?