On Tue, Oct 25 2005, Mark Seger wrote:
> yes, the patch worked. The general discussion was that the byte counter
> gets incremented when requests are queued, not when they're acted upon
> as is the case with the count of I/Os. As a result, the disk write
> numbers don't make any sense reporting impossibly high numbers (>100MB
> and as high as 450!) during some times and at other reporting zeros.
> The entire time, the I/O counts are happily showing what appear to be
> correct numbers. Here's a snapshot taken during a portion of a 2GB file
> file to /tmp.
I've applied my path to the for-linus git branch, I will push it for
2.6.15 as well. Thanks for reminding me!
--
Jens Axboe
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