What is the unit of "nr_writeback"?

From: Martin Knoblauch
Date: Tue Dec 04 2007 - 07:59:10 EST


Hi,

forgive the stupid question. What is the unit of "nr_writeback"? One would usually assume a rate, but looking at the code I see it added together with nr_dirty and nr_unstable, somehow defeating the assumption.

Cheers
Martin
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