Compression on the backing device?
Compression on the backing device?
Posted Feb 25, 2026 2:05 UTC (Wed) by intelfx (subscriber, #130118)In reply to: Compression on the backing device? by PeeWee
Parent article: Modernizing swapping: virtual swap spaces
> Then why not let zswap assimilate the swap allocator, outright?
No objection from me.
Like I said several times already, I am merely remarking that while the present limitations of zswap may have _occurred_ due to it being originally a client of frontswap, nothing says it "cannot go further" than that. You have just suggested one way it, indeed, *can*.