linux-ext4 - Re: Questions on ext4 and writeback

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Message-ID: <20090818163909.GD28560@mit.edu>
Date:	Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:39:09 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@...gle.com>
Cc:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Questions on ext4 and writeback

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:09:58AM -0700, Curt Wohlgemuth wrote:
> But the actual submittal of I/O for the previous extent might cause
> pages_skipped to be bumped, right?  Removing these increments might cause
> the accounting to be incorrect, it seems to me.

I don't see where the submission of an extent of pages for I/O would
cause page_skipped to be incremented or changed --- am I missing
something?

						- Ted
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