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charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.60.2 (3.60.2-1.fc44) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 On Thu, 2026-09-24 at 14:43 -1000, Chris Li wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2026 at 6:20=E2=80=AFAM Nhat Pham wro= te: > >=20 >=20 > > It is needed because vswap *is* a special device, with its own > > requirements. If you don't special case-it, you'd get undesirable > > behaviors. >=20 > Ack, that is why I am against making it a special device. That is the > whole idea behind xswap. It is just normal swap device implemented > via > swap_ops just like ext4 is a file system implemnet on top of VFS. The filesystem layer is relatively clean because it has a VFS. Are you saying it is time we have a similar abstraction layer on the swap side? --=20 All Rights Reversed.