Re: [PATCH 4/5] mm: zswap: add basic meminfo and vmstat coverage

Shakeel Butt
2022-05-05T19:33:08Z

On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 9:54 AM Yang Shi <shy828301-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
[...]
> > Yes, we have some modifications to zswap to make it work without any
> > backing real swap. Though there is a future plan to move to zram
> > eventually.
>
> Interesting, if so why not just simply use zram?
>

Historical reasons. When we started trying out the zswap, I think zram
was still in staging or not stable enough (Suleiman can give a better
answer).