Support for swap is non-trivial. Guaranteed pods should never require swap. Burstable pods should have their requests met without requiring swap. BestEffort pods have no guarantee. The kubelet right now lacks the smarts to provide the right amount of predictable behavior here across pods.

We discussed this topic at the resource mgmt face to face earlier this year. We are not super interested in tackling this in the near term relative to the gains it could realize. We would prefer to improve reliability around pressure detection, and optimize issues around latency before trying to optimize for swap, but if this is a higher priority for you, we would love your help