protected int incrementDependentWriteCount ( ) { dependentWriteCount ++ ; if ( TraceComponent . isAnyTracingEnabled ( ) && tc . isDebugEnabled ( ) ) { Tr . debug ( tc , "incrementDependentWriteCount entry: new dependentWriteCount of: " + dependentWriteCount + " for node: " + this ) ; } return dependentWriteCount ; }
increment the count since of the number of writes the direct dependents have done since that last reset .