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From: Rik van Riel To: Chris Li Cc: Baoquan He , Shakeel Butt , Nhat Pham , Kairui Song , Johannes Weiner , Michal Hocko , Roman Gushchin , Yosry Ahmed , David Hildenbrand , Muchun Song , Kemeng Shi , Barry Song , YoungJun Park , Chengming Zhou , "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" , "Liam R. 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I want to add that we should support new functionality without > sacrificing existing user functionality. >=20 That means things need to work both for users who want to configure a zswap size, and for those who do not. The cgroup memory.swap.max is an existing interface that does that on a per cgroup basis for swap, though in practice the=C2=A0 limit mostly seems to be set to 0 (no swap), or to max (no limit). memory.zswap.max does the same on the zswap side, again mostly 0 or max are used. Are you saying you rely on having something like that at the system level, too? --=20 All Rights Reversed.