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

From: Barry Song
Date: Mon Aug 12 2024 - 04:44:25 EST


On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 8:27 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 01, 2024 at 01:55:51PM -0700, Chris Li wrote:
> > Currently Android uses zram and it needs to be the Android team's
> > decision to move from zram to something else. I don't see that
> > happening any time soon. There are practical limitations.
>
> No one can tell anyone to stop using things. But we can stop adding
> new hacks for this, and especially user facing controls.

Well, this user-facing control has absolutely nothing to do with zram-related
hacks. It's meant to address a general issue, mainly concerning slow-speed
swap devices like SSDs, as suggested in Ying's comment on v4.

Thanks
Barry