Control: reassign -1 src:linux Control: retitle -1 linux: Enable zswap support via CONFIG_ZSWAP_DEFAULT_ON ? On 20 Sep 2020 21:21:39 +0200 Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 12:37:02PM -0400, Calum McConnell wrote: > > I think a lot of people would benefit from zswap being enabled by default. > > Interestingly it still contains the following note in documentation: > > Zswap is a new feature as of v3.11 and interacts heavily with memory > reclaim. This interaction has not been fully explored on the large set > of potential configurations and workloads that exist. For this reason, > zswap is a work in progress and should be considered experimental. > > Unless this is not anymore to be considered valid, then > CONFIG_ZSWAP_DEFAULT_ON could be switched on (possible since 5.7-rc1). I looked into the history and found that that text was added on 2013-07-11 in 61b0d76017a50c263c303fa263b295b04e0c68f6 (part of 3.11) and hasn't been changed/updated since. The zswap.rst file is currently stored under Documentation/admin-guide/mm/.
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