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From: Martin Knoblauch <spamtrap@knobisoft.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: What is the unit of "nr_writeback"?
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 04:58:52 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <662998.31825.qm@web32606.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)

Hi,

 forgive the stupid question. What is the unit of "nr_writeback"? One would usually assume a rate, but looking at the code I see it added together with nr_dirty and nr_unstable, somehow defeating the assumption.

Cheers
Martin
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Martin Knoblauch
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