[merged mm-stable] mm-remove-experimental-flag-for-zswap.patch removed from -mm tree

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The quilt patch titled
     Subject: mm: remove EXPERIMENTAL flag for zswap
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-remove-experimental-flag-for-zswap.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of 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





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