• [$] Modernizing swapping: virtual swap spaces

    From LWN.net@86:200/23 to All on Fri Feb 20 06:40:08 2026
    The kernel's unloved but performance-critical swapping subsystem has been undergoing multiple rounds of improvement in recent times. Recent articles have described the addition of the swap
    table as a new way of representing the state of the swap cache, and the removal of the swap map as the way of
    tracking swap space. Work in this area is not done, though; this series from Nhat Pham addresses a number of swap-related problems by replacing the
    new swap table structures with a single, virtual swap space.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1059201/
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