Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753882AbXLDM7I (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Dec 2007 07:59:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753129AbXLDM64 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Dec 2007 07:58:56 -0500 Received: from web32606.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.207.233]:29818 "HELO web32606.mail.mud.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752908AbXLDM6y (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Dec 2007 07:58:54 -0500 X-YMail-OSG: dE9RL6sVM1l_IGjQbR3jFsRtSnBHBpIl6wZeXAhaxoj_qrz3heUOU_VbE7rZgVXLeT2GDsFPGiUJkdO3lz3WeCNhng-- X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/818.31 YahooMailWebService/0.7.158.1 Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 04:58:52 -0800 (PST) From: Martin Knoblauch Subject: What is the unit of "nr_writeback"? To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <662998.31825.qm@web32606.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 619 Lines: 17 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 ------------------------------------------------------ Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/