| Date | Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:05:44 -0800 | From | Mark Fasheh <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 19/56] mm: Export pdflush_operation() |
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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@suse.com> 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
-- Mark Fasheh
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