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Date:   Tue, 30 May 2023 23:00:52 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To:     Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: zswap: support exclusive loads
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On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 07:54:47PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Somewhat tangential, but is there still a point to the frontswap
> layer? It seems usecases other than zswap have never materialized, at
> least not in tree. Life would be a lot easier if we were to just
> hardcode the zswap callbacks in the swap functions.

I've been wanting to remove it for a while, as it really is rather
pointless.