On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 11:20 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > Provide scalable per backing_dev_info statistics counters modeled on the ZVC > > code. > > Why do we need global_bdi_stat()? It should give approximately the > same numbers as global_page_state(), no?
For those counters that are shared, yes. However I find it not obvious that all BDI counter will always be mirrored in the page stats, and I actually use it in 6/6, which introduces counters that are not mirrored in the page stats. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
