Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:01:04 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com,
       joel.becker@oracle.com, jack@suse.cz, mfasheh@suse.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 19/56] mm: Export pdflush_operation()
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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?
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