linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] block: fix inconsistency in I/O stat accounting code

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Message-ID: <20090326184045.GJ27476@kernel.dk>
Date:	Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:40:45 +0100
From:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To:	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] block: fix inconsistency in I/O stat accounting
	code

On Thu, Mar 26 2009, Jerome Marchand wrote:
> This forces in_flight to be zero when turning off or on the I/O stat
> accounting and stops updating I/O stats in attempt_merge() when
> accounting is turned off.

Good stuff, thanks for doing this Jerome! I'll test it and queue it up
for 2.6.30. Then we can later do a -stable backport as well, if things
work out.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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