The patch titled
Subject: mm: remove EXPERIMENTAL flag for zswap
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is
mm-remove-experimental-flag-for-zswap.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-remove-experimental-flag-for-zswap.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: David Heidelberg <david@xxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: remove EXPERIMENTAL flag for zswap
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2022 17:20:33 +0200
zswap has been with us since 2013, and it's widely used in many products.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220823152033.66682-1-david@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: David Heidelberg <david@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/Kconfig | 8 +-------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/Kconfig~mm-remove-experimental-flag-for-zswap
+++ a/mm/Kconfig
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ menuconfig SWAP
in your computer. If unsure say Y.
config ZSWAP
- bool "Compressed cache for swap pages (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ bool "Compressed cache for swap pages"
depends on SWAP
select FRONTSWAP
select CRYPTO
@@ -36,12 +36,6 @@ config ZSWAP
in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster than swap device
reads, can also improve workload performance.
- This is marked experimental because it is a new feature (as of
- v3.11) that interacts heavily with memory reclaim. While these
- interactions don't cause any known issues on simple memory setups,
- they have not be fully explored on the large set of potential
- configurations and workloads that exist.
-
config ZSWAP_DEFAULT_ON
bool "Enable the compressed cache for swap pages by default"
depends on ZSWAP
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from david@xxxxxxx are
mm-remove-experimental-flag-for-zswap.patch
