linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 4/4] mm: Introduce per-thpsize swapin control policy

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Message-ID: <20240801030027.GE16599@google.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2024 12:00:27 +0900
From: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>
To: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com>
Cc: Barry Song <21cnbao@...il.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 4/4] mm: Introduce per-thpsize swapin control policy

On (24/07/31 11:35), Nhat Pham wrote:
>
> I'm not proposing that we kill zram right away.
>

Just for the record, zram is a generic block device and has
use-cases outside of swap. Just mkfs on /dev/zram0, mount it
and do whatever. The "kill zram" thing is not going to fly.