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Modernizing swapping: virtual swap spaces

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Hacker News | Mar 5, 2026 | voxadam

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When an anonymous page is pushed out to a swap device, to that page. The transition to swap tables has simplified the kernel swapped-out pages firmly to a specific device. VSWAP_ZSWAP identifies a slot in the zswap one swap device to another.

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