[RFC PATCH] mm: z3fold: rename CONFIG_Z3FOLD to CONFIG_Z3FOLD_DEPRECATED

[Nhat Pham]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 3:37 PM Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed at google.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 11:42 AM Nhat Pham <nphamcs at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 11:31 AM Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed at google.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > The z3fold compressed pages allocator is not widely used, most users use
> > > zsmalloc. The only disadvantage of zsmalloc in comparison is the
> > > dependency on MMU, and zbud is a more common option for !MMU as it was
> > > the default zswap allocator for a long time.
> >
> > Johannes and I were chatting about this the other day. We might be
> > able to disable certain zsmalloc behavior in the case of !MMU, making
> > it available there too. Once that's happened, we can outright remove
> > z3fold and zbud, and have one allocator to rule them all? :)
>
> (Adding Sergey and Minchan for visibility)
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> I didn't want to bring up the zsmalloc MMU dependency in this thread
> to reduce noise, but that's also what I had in mind. Sergey and I were
> also chatting about this the other day :)
>
> I thought deprecating z3fold is the low hanging fruit. Then, once we
> can sort out the MMU dependency in zsmalloc, we can go after zbud as
> well.

Makes sense to me. Should we do the same thing to zbud? We probably
have even less of a case for it, no?