From: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
To: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>, Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Cc: "Johannes Weiner" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
"Baoquan He" <baoquan.he@linux.dev>,
"Nhat Pham" <nphamcs@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: Path forward for Virtualized Swap?
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2026 10:06:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8aaf1f8101c9e45514af442aaf1969e3aafec4d0.camel@surriel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACePvbXudjxQ5vrrY4D1nOXKaFNQUn-tL+p3O0zfxtHXK99ojQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 2026-09-20 at 23:43 -1000, Chris Li wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2026 at 3:53 PM Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > I want:
>
> >
> > 1) zswap on machines with no swapfile
> >
> > 2) without being asked "how big?" - there is no number I can give
> > that stays correct, and
>
> Because you can't answer a question, we have to bend over backwards
> for you? That does not make sense.
There are millions of users for who the system
should just work, without having to first answer
your questions.
Their use case is legitimate.
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Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-04 21:14 Nhat Pham
2026-09-07 5:51 ` Kairui Song
2026-09-08 16:36 ` Nhat Pham
2026-09-11 16:09 ` Kairui Song
2026-09-11 16:57 ` Nhat Pham
2026-09-11 18:14 ` Kairui Song
2026-09-11 19:03 ` Nhat Pham
2026-09-12 8:47 ` Kairui Song
2026-09-14 16:49 ` Nhat Pham
2026-09-08 18:30 ` Johannes Weiner
2026-09-09 16:41 ` Nhat Pham
2026-09-09 17:47 ` Nhat Pham
2026-09-12 9:00 ` Kairui Song
2026-09-12 11:51 ` Johannes Weiner
2026-09-19 7:23 ` Chris Li
2026-09-20 1:06 ` Rik van Riel
2026-09-21 0:18 ` Chris Li
2026-09-21 0:35 ` Rik van Riel
2026-09-21 0:53 ` Chris Li
2026-09-14 16:10 ` Nhat Pham
2026-09-10 23:27 ` Nhat Pham
2026-09-07 11:30 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-08 16:45 ` Nhat Pham
2026-09-10 10:56 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-10 16:22 ` Nhat Pham
2026-09-10 17:57 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-11 16:20 ` Kairui Song
2026-09-11 16:56 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-14 15:00 ` Baoquan He
2026-09-19 6:50 ` Chris Li
2026-09-21 18:55 ` Nhat Pham
2026-09-10 7:09 ` Baoquan He
2026-09-10 16:39 ` Shakeel Butt
2026-09-11 13:06 ` Baoquan He
2026-09-11 16:45 ` Shakeel Butt
2026-09-15 5:48 ` Baoquan He
2026-09-15 6:44 ` Baoquan He
2026-09-19 6:55 ` Chris Li
2026-09-19 16:15 ` Rik van Riel
2026-09-19 21:21 ` Chris Li
2026-09-19 22:50 ` Rik van Riel
2026-09-21 0:13 ` Chris Li
2026-09-19 7:07 ` Chris Li
2026-09-10 17:03 ` Johannes Weiner
2026-09-11 12:27 ` Baoquan He
2026-09-11 16:21 ` Johannes Weiner
2026-09-19 8:45 ` Chris Li
2026-09-19 16:08 ` Gregory Price
2026-09-19 19:02 ` Chris Li
2026-09-20 1:14 ` Rik van Riel
2026-09-20 1:53 ` Gregory Price
2026-09-21 9:43 ` Chris Li
2026-09-21 12:53 ` Gregory Price
2026-09-21 16:11 ` Chris Li
2026-09-21 14:06 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2026-09-21 16:15 ` Chris Li
2026-09-21 15:16 ` Rik van Riel
2026-09-21 16:31 ` Chris Li
2026-09-21 16:36 ` Rik van Riel
2026-09-21 18:10 ` Chris Li
2026-09-21 18:52 ` Rik van Riel
2026-09-21 10:01 ` Kairui Song
2026-09-21 13:27 ` Gregory Price
2026-09-21 15:27 ` Rik van Riel
2026-09-21 15:48 ` Gregory Price
2026-09-21 16:32 ` Chris Li
2026-09-21 17:02 ` Gregory Price
2026-09-21 18:11 ` Nhat Pham
2026-09-10 17:16 ` Nhat Pham
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