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Docs/admin-guide/mm/zswap: remove a paragraph about zswap being a new feature

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Nine years have passed since Linux 3.11.

Signed-off-by: David Heidelberg <david@ixit.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221104122612.14906-1-david@ixit.cz
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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@ -14,13 +14,7 @@ for potentially reduced swap I/O. This trade-off can also result in a
significant performance improvement if reads from the compressed cache are
faster than reads from a swap device.
.. note::
Zswap is a new feature as of v3.11 and interacts heavily with memory
reclaim. This interaction has not been fully explored on the large set of
potential configurations and workloads that exist. For this reason, zswap
is a work in progress and should be considered experimental.
Some potential benefits:
Some potential benefits:
* Desktop/laptop users with limited RAM capacities can mitigate the
performance impact of swapping.