diff --git a/pgxn/neon/communicator/src/integrated_cache.rs b/pgxn/neon/communicator/src/integrated_cache.rs
index 6b6ce03a66..a69af44492 100644
--- a/pgxn/neon/communicator/src/integrated_cache.rs
+++ b/pgxn/neon/communicator/src/integrated_cache.rs
@@ -333,13 +333,6 @@ impl<'t> IntegratedCacheWriteAccess<'t> {
         }
     }
 
-    /// Returns the last written LSN.
-    pub fn get_lsn(&'t self) -> Lsn {
-        // TODO: supposedly, this should be the last written LSN, but it is not
-        // , perhaps
-        Lsn(self.global_lw_lsn.load(Ordering::Relaxed))
-    }
-
     pub fn get_db_size(&'t self, _db_oid: u32) -> CacheResult<u64> {
         // TODO: it would be nice to cache database sizes too. Getting the database size
         // is not a very common operation, but when you do it, it's often interactive, with
diff --git a/pgxn/neon/communicator/src/lib.rs b/pgxn/neon/communicator/src/lib.rs
index 050391051d..84e7038842 100644
--- a/pgxn/neon/communicator/src/lib.rs
+++ b/pgxn/neon/communicator/src/lib.rs
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 //! - async tokio communicator core, which receives requests and processes them.
 //! - Main loop and requests queues, which routes requests from backends to the core
 //! - the per-backend glue code, which submits requests
+#![warn(unused)]
 
 mod backend_comms;
 
@@ -23,5 +24,3 @@ mod global_allocator;
 
 // FIXME: get this from postgres headers somehow
 pub const BLCKSZ: usize = 8192;
-// FIXME: get this from postgres headers somehow
-pub const SLRU_PAGES_PER_SEGMENT: usize = 32;
diff --git a/pgxn/neon/communicator/src/worker_process/main_loop.rs b/pgxn/neon/communicator/src/worker_process/main_loop.rs
index e6fb05241c..0b2f9da366 100644
--- a/pgxn/neon/communicator/src/worker_process/main_loop.rs
+++ b/pgxn/neon/communicator/src/worker_process/main_loop.rs
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ impl<'t> CommunicatorWorkerProcessStruct<'t> {
                     .await
                 {
                     Ok(slru_bytes) => {
-                        if let Err(e) = std::fs::write(&file_path, &slru_bytes) {
+                        if let Err(e) = tokio::fs::write(&file_path, &slru_bytes).await {
                             info!("could not write slru segment to file {file_path}: {e}");
                             return NeonIOResult::Error(e.raw_os_error().unwrap_or(libc::EIO));
                         }
diff --git a/pgxn/neon/communicator_new.c b/pgxn/neon/communicator_new.c
index a7225e78e7..9cceafba2f 100644
--- a/pgxn/neon/communicator_new.c
+++ b/pgxn/neon/communicator_new.c
@@ -178,6 +178,32 @@ assign_request_id(void)
 	return result;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns the absolute path to the given path.
+*/
+static inline char * get_absolute_path(const char *path)
+{
+	char *abs_path = bounce_buf();
+	char cwd[PATH_MAX];
+	int size = 0;
+
+	if (path[0] == '/') {
+		strncpy(abs_path, path, strlen(path));
+		return abs_path;
+	}
+
+	getcwd(cwd, sizeof(cwd));
+
+	size = snprintf(NULL, 0, "%s/%s", cwd, path);
+
+	if (size < 0 || size >= PATH_MAX) {
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
+	snprintf(abs_path, size + 1, "%s/%s", cwd, path);
+	return abs_path;
+}
+
 /**** Initialization functions. These run in postmaster ****/
 
 void
@@ -1014,32 +1040,14 @@ communicator_new_read_slru_segment(
 			.request_lsn = request_lsns->request_lsn,
 		}
 	};
+	int nblocks = -1;
 
 	if (path == NULL) {
 		elog(ERROR, "read_slru_segment called with NULL path");
 		return -1;
 	}
 
-	// Scoping should help deallocate the absolute path buffer.
-	char *abs_path = bounce_buf();
-
-	if (path[0] != '/') {
-		char cwd[PATH_MAX];
-		getcwd(cwd, sizeof(cwd));
-
-		const int size = snprintf(NULL, 0, "%s/%s", cwd, path);
-
-		if (size < 0 || size >= PATH_MAX) {
-			elog(ERROR, "read_slru_segment failed to create an absolute path for \"%s\"", path);
-			return -1;
-		}
-
-		snprintf(abs_path, size + 1, "%s/%s", cwd, path);
-	} else {
-		strncpy(abs_path, path, sizeof(abs_path));
-	}
-
-	request.read_slru_segment.destination_file_path.ptr = abs_path;
+	request.read_slru_segment.destination_file_path.ptr = (uint8_t *) get_absolute_path(path);
 
 	elog(DEBUG5, "readslrusegment called for kind=%u, segno=%u, file_path=\"%s\"",
 		kind, segno, request.read_slru_segment.destination_file_path.ptr);
@@ -1049,8 +1057,6 @@ communicator_new_read_slru_segment(
 
 	perform_request(&request, &result);
 
-	int nblocks = -1;
-
 	switch (result.tag)
 	{
 		case NeonIOResult_ReadSlruSegment:
@@ -1381,7 +1387,7 @@ print_neon_io_request(NeonIORequest *request)
 								r->slru_kind,
 								r->segment_number,
 								LSN_FORMAT_ARGS(r->request_lsn),
-								r->destination_file_path);
+								r->destination_file_path.ptr);
 				return buf;
 			}
 		case NeonIORequest_PrefetchV: