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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.