Re: [PATCH 19/56] mm: Export pdflush_operation()

[Mark Fasheh]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 04:01:04PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:48:00 -0800
> Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > OCSF2 will need to queue up work for periodic syncing of quotas
> > among nodes in the cluster. pdflush() is good thread for this so
> > export it's controlling function so that OCFS2 can use it.
> 
> I trust that nothing will explode if pdflush_operation() fails
> to do anything and returns -1?

Hmm, Jan do you have any opinion here? I'm wondering if we just need our own
thread for this after all...
	--Mark

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