On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Rajat...
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 09:30, Rajat Sharma <fs.rajat@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 :)