difference between io_schedule() and schedule()

[Rajat Sharma]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Mulyadi Santosa
<mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Rajat...
>
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 09:30, Rajat Sharma <fs.rajat at gmail.com> wrote:
>> of course I looked at the source (obvious first step) before asking
>> question and further following tsk->in_iowait, it seems it is just
>> needed for accounting purpose.
>>
>>                        if (tsk->in_iowait) {
>>                                se->statistics.iowait_sum += delta;
>>                                se->statistics.iowait_count++;
>>                                trace_sched_stat_iowait(tsk, delta);
>>                        }
>>
>> Wanted to be sure of "is that it all about"? or I am missing something here?
>
> I got a feeling that the main show is:
>       blk_flush_plug(current);
> that name somehow indicates it is "forcing" read/write to happen,
> either real soon or at the earliest moment possible...
>
>
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Ah, just missed that, thats actually countable difference. Thanks for
the pointer :)