linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] mm: zswap: global shrinker fix and proactive shrink

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Message-Id: <20240706103254.ffd02d7036fa3fe43dbed806@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2024 10:32:54 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Takero Funaki <flintglass@...il.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, Yosry Ahmed
 <yosryahmed@...gle.com>, Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com>, Chengming Zhou
 <chengming.zhou@...ux.dev>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Domenico
 Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@...il.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
 linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] mm: zswap: global shrinker fix and proactive
 shrink

On Sat,  6 Jul 2024 02:25:16 +0000 Takero Funaki <flintglass@...il.com> wrote:

> This series addresses some issues and introduces a minor improvement in
> the zswap global shrinker.

Seems that patches 1 & 2 might be worthy of backporting into earlier
kernels?  Could you please provide a description of the
userspace-visible effects of the bugs so the desirability of such an
action can be better understood?